GFF Hammerwatch Night: A Chorus of Fucks
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Thursday nights, 9 PM to midnight EST (Often we run later). Acer reads everything out loud at http://www.thegond.com/letsplay/ Experience pulchritude with Garr at http://www.thegond.com/garr/ Join our Steam Group for announcements if you're into announcements. List of games by player count Custom CAH decks Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: |
I'm so in.
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I'm tentatively in until I see if my schedule gets fucked again.
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I'd like to be in, but I've never played a game of this through the interwebs before. So I might need a bit of educating, but I'm otherwise cool.
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YOU BET CHIEF
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Can I use my xbox headset on the 'puter?
I already have a DnD character I had prepared for way back when. So there's that. I'll send it to you at some point. What system is Space Hulk? |
Oh, one more thing: build your new guys at level 5, if possible.
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(I think it's technically meant to be a 1-on-1 game but I figure you guys can split the Space Marine responsibilities — again, assuming we have time for SH at all.) |
On this like stink on rice. I can probably only make it on Wednesdays, but we'll see how things go.
I'm not sure whether xbox mics would work. i know they're not USB, but i don't know if the connection is just a microphone jack or if the setup is something different. always worth a try, though. Oh yeah, i totally have a Swordmage i've been wanting to use for DnD 4E. it's hard to convince the other players to let you use your character when you're supposed to be the DM. |
Guys, I don't want to nag but I do need your 4E characters in advance, since setting up the token macros does take like 15 minutes a pop. I'll be making up some generic characters just in case but these characters are things like pixie vampires and blob knights so tarry at your own risk!
V Games Workshop seems to exist outside the constraints of conventional copyright law, on both the thief and victim ends of things. |
The best description of Space Hulk is that someone watched Aliens and decided to make a board game out of it only using 40k Space Marines, since that's essentially what happened and how Games Workshop never got sued for the Genestealers I will never know.
I'd love to be in but these are going to start at like 3am here which is a touch late on a school night even for me. This thread has made me want to find my copy of Space Hulk:Vengance of the Blood Angels on PS though, the hardest console game ever made. |
I'll fire this off to you by tomorrow, Pang.
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Ditto. I'll shit out a character sometime tonight.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a Robot again though. Just sayin |
Ugh 4E.
How many PC slots are you putting in? I'd be down for some playtime and can whip up a character this weekend. |
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If we have to teach acer how to play again I might go crazy
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Man now I kind of want to try to teach everyone how THAC0 works
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3.5 is broken in a lot of different ways. I typically do either Pathfinder or d20 modern, depending on the campaign. That being said, I'm an RPG nut, so I'll play/try out any system. |
So I used to have access to this with some characters made but I don't anymore. I might have a few character sheets lying around though, now that I think about it... I'll toss one or two your way if I can find 'em.
[edit] Yeah, shit. I don't have digital copies anymore, but I might have 'em on paper. We'll see. |
I'd be willing to play as well, if there aren't too many people already. As far as a character goes, I'd be willing to use whatever you have on hand Pang, as I don't have access to the Character Builder anymore either, since the PC I installed it on had a hard drive failure incident recently.
Also, I don't have a headset, but wouldn't headphones do to cut out the noise from the client? I also don't mind doing the whole mute/unmute dance at all if my mic gets too noisy. |
Since the training game died pretty quick, I didn't really get to use this to it's full comedic effect.
So I'm bringing back Optimus Prime. http://colonelskills.belkanairforce....imecropped.jpghttp://colonelskills.belkanairforce....uckcropped.jpg My shit is mad out of date though. If there's been source books and things to look at in the last several months I'm completely behind on those. |
Sorry about the delay, Pang. I made a guy, then saw you wanted them at level 5, so I remade a guy. Any magic weapons or any such thing?
Also, Halfling Monk. |
What is it with you and halflings? If you're going to be a comedy short-arse then surely gnome is the way forward?
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I made a psion back in, oh, October, in eager anticipation to play again. Guess it's time to dust him off.
Went ahead and emailed it to you. |
^5 Deni, it's all about the Halflings.
Trying something different this time around though, class-wise. We'll see how it works out. |
Oh fuck, level 5?
I missed that. Redoing. |
Unfortunately, I'm going to need to withdraw my participation tonight, I've got a bit too much schoolwork to do and I won't be able to take the evening off from it. I should hopefully be good to go on the next Tuesday session.
Sorry all, and Pang I hope you didn't take any time putting together a character for me. Have fun! |
yeah apparently I have class on Tues night so Weds. is going to be the day I can participate.
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Everything's running! Join whenever, you lazy dicks
Ok, small last-minute adjustment: remember how I said I was going to compile all the mechanics into the tokens? Turns out that really only works for NPCs. Tokens can handle HP, initiative, passive stuff like that, but trying to get them to understand attack powers or equipment is like herding cats. So, if possible, please have your sheet handy in another window for reference. Since a lot of you gave yourselves shitty and/or no equipment I'm passing level-corrected / geared up sheets back your way: Index of /maptool Just take whatever looks good if you're dropping in and you didn't get around to making anything. Depending on whether you even have the Builder and how up-to-date yours is you might need some things explained so let me know. Once we start a campaign proper (tonight is just a stress test really) we can work on getting everyone's tools up to date. To connect to the game you'll need MapTool. Get the newest version, 1.3.b87. It's Java so it should work for everybody so far as I know! Once you've installed it (that is, put the folder somewhere out of the way, there's no installer as such), DO NOT run Launch MapTool-1G-Memory.bat. DO launch via MapToolLauncher. Or try both! Who the fuck knows! Once you've launched, go to FILE --> CONNECT TO SERVER. Pick your username, make sure your role is set as "Player" and select the Direct tab. Connect to thegond.us.to port 51234. If someone can try this in advance just so we can be sure I set things up right that would be excellent. As for the Skype call, I only have Deni on my contacts so the rest of you will need to add me (I'm pangalin, derp) or just join the call once it starts in.... fffff, about an hour! Maybe! Additional Spam: CORRECTION: Don't use the .bat! Use the launcher! I'm an idiot! |
YOU ASSHOLES
WHERE WERE YOU WE DIED HORRIBLY |
WE NEEDED YOU. INSTEAD OF YOU GUYS SHOWING UP TO HELP, THE SORCERER HAD TO TANK BECAUSE THE PALADIN DIED.
well i died too but somehow i survived longer GEEZ. |
PLAYER OF THE WEEK: SOUSUKE
KILLS: ALMOST 1 |
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I missed the bloodbath. :(
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lmao sorcerer tanking. KITE THEM WITH MAGIC MISSILE.
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Fixed your thread title for you nerds.
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awww, sorry everyone, i was busy trying (and failing) to kill my own players tonight. Hopefully i can make it next tuesday, my tank is (as far as i can tell) pretty solid.
Good to see that this actually sort of worked out, though. GFF D&D coming back is one of the more exciting things that's happened of late. |
more like it's the only thing that's happened as of late. hurp
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Since there seems to be some confusion, next session is on Wednesday, February 1. Not Tuesday. We may continue the alternation plan or we may just stick with Wednesday going forward depending on the turnout, since apparently you guys who "can't make it on Wednesdays" can't make it on Tuesdays either.
(From March forward my weekends open up and we could do Thursday or Friday maybe but who knows how that works for the rest of you or if this will even last that long) Anyways, gonna go ahead and roll back to level 1 after all, experience on Tuesday showed that 5 levels of stuff is a little much to juggle while still learning the Maptools interface. Sorry to you guys that went through the hassle of picking out all your level 5 gear 'n shit. On the upside you can probably expect to hit level 2 within one session instead of a month! So, also different adventure of course. Chaser game's up in the air since I'm kind of souring on the value of Space Hulk for 3+ players. Suggestions? Also, maybe it would be better to run the light games before the D&D session, give people a little more time to show up? |
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There's not anything bad with how you're doing the scheduling, but if you're actually concerned about turnout, maybe you could put up a doodle to find the best nights. I recently discovered the site and found it to be really really helpful.
doodle.com |
Despite the horrible terribleness that was our instant death, I had a lot of fun there.
I will try to make myself more available on the Wednesdays for this. |
I'll never be able to do wednesdays. Soccer games ever wed night.
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Daaaaaaaang.
Ok here's the Doodle, can everyone who's remotely interested kindly go on there and just assert which day(s) you're available? I don't want to shut out anybody but that might be an impossible goal so let's just shoot for the best. Doodle: GFF Game Night (In retrospect I should have made this a poll thread in the first place) |
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Why is your face sad sir
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HE IS SAD CUZ HE'S GONNA HAVE TO TEACH ME HOW TO PLAAAAAAY~
btw i'm gonna try and stream our session and skype shit tonight if you aren't playing but want to watch us nerd out then check out... Let's Play some viderogams 'n' stuff in like i dunno 30 min or something |
Ok! Server should be running. Connect at will: 72.94.96.176 port 51234
Again, if possible, join us on Skype because that makes life easier for everybody. Explanatory post from last week should still be valid, let me know if anything is causing any issues. As before, feel free to drop in even if you have no idea what you're doing. I have characters ready for you. Horrible, stupid characters. |
WE HAVE NO CLUE WHAT WE'RE DOING
but it's great and we're not dying yet cool |
TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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that moment when everyone discovers the bright yellow END TURN button
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That button
The button of my dreeeeams |
Fuckin' glue and string internet
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True :(
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tonight was an adventure in internets
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NEXT WEEK (Tuesday, February 7): We finish FROG MURDER SIMULATOR 20XX (shouldn't take more than 90 minutes now that we MOSTLY know what we're doing and also because Acer will be hosting and we won't have to deal with constant desync) and then try something a little less crunchy. Because, you know, much as we love pressing all the little buttons maybe it is too many buttons. And I do not say this lightly because god damn it making those buttons was a lot of work :(
Yeah I spent some time away from 4E and now that I come back to it, it's like damn son why so many moving parts? Also looking back at last night we had a lot of fun but practically none of it actually derived from the game we were all purportedly playing sooooo. But gonna finish that first adventure at least, we'll see. Looking at some alternative systems for robot truck blob battel. (Also there is apparently no way to make TRUCK MODE into a macro which infuriates me. IF I CANNOT HAVE TRUCK BUTTON THEN WHAT GOOD IS BUTTON) |
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About an hour 'til game time! Acer should be hosting maptool at thegond.us.to and possibly streaming our horrible incompetence via his Let's Play page.
We'll be finishing the 1st level D&D adventure and then moving on to character generation for the indie RPG Legends of Anglerre. LoA chargen is a cooperative thing that involves the whole group instead of a number-crunching exercise you need a dedicated app for, so that should be fun. LoA is generally a lot more freeform and I think the group is creative enough to really benefit from that. I don't know if we'll actually have time to PLAY LoA once that's done (depending on Skills' bedtime) but I will try to wing it if necessary since there aren't any published adventures for the damned thing. Or, potentially, Orient Express if I can find a copy of the board in a decent resolution. Also also standard boilerplate EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN (since you cannot fuck things up more than we already do) (PS Deni actually show up you jerk) ALSO, potentially, nerd comedy originating from foreign lands (Canada doesn't count as foreign, shut up). Additional Spam: Just streamin' some Knightmare while we wait for our last two players |
P.S. NO.
(Make skills txt me to remind me. :( ) |
THERE'S STILL TIME! COME HELP SOUSUKE MAKE UP A STORY ABOUT TIMETRAVELING GHOSTS
Additional Spam: Queen Victoria's Ghost is little in the middle (but has much back) |
Well I say, what's this soot-ish lump doing here?
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Just to clarify, here's the party roster
Queen Victoria's TIME TRAVELING Ghost (Sousuke) A Chimneysweep named Goblob Hobjob or I don't even know what (Rychord) DJ Delicious, the Robot Chocolatier (Skills) Petey, a Wizard Canary (Acer) they all met during an epic rap battle inside the chocolate peanut butter cat surprise tunnel v he's only swearing because all the soot made him black (and therefore evil) |
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I am seriously in pain laughing so hard
A Cappella Sir Mix-A-Lot is the best anything |
next week, Acer recites Fuck Tha Police
Added Junk: Also, some ridiculous shit that happened during 4E play: A corgi murdering his way through a giant frog from the inside Frogs used as weapons against frogs A truck hiding underneath a dog A spectator token that technically didn't exist being used as a giant pinball Acer spending 10 minutes crafting an improvised attack to "Lick The Frog" Blob Loblaw growing to massive size to engage in Kaiju Big Battel with the aforementioned spectator token Skipping the last battle of the module because the game framework was falling down around our ears Acer and Skills only ever healing themselves while Sousuke spends half the battle at around 4 HP |
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I can't believe you didn't get that, it's not like there was three other people gasping for air and injecting random comments on the call while I was saying it. Honestly Goblob Hobjob almost sounds better though. Edit: I'd be curious to see what you have written down for aspects on all these guys. All I remember is that Skills "likes big butts", "cannot lie", and has an "itty-bitty waist". |
You have no idea how difficult it is
to sit in a dead fucking quiet office 14 people not making a noise and you're trying not to laugh at "peanut butter mineshaft" It's really quite a challenge. |
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Character Name: Blob Loblaw Aspects * Will make you jump, jump * Don't call it a comeback * Drunk as hell but no throwing up * Got bitches in the living room gettin' it on * Super dope homeboy from the Oaktown * Doin' a little East Coast swing Additional Spam: If you type "I like big butts" into wikipedia search it sends you to precisely the right place. Gonna donate on the next drive, wiki foundation understands my needs |
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Tomorrow! Wednesday, February 15! 9 PM EST! We finish the last steps of Legends of Anglerre character generation (and walk anyone who missed last week through the first steps as quickly as possible) and then straight on to Orient Express, since I still haven't had time to convert an adventure to LOA and also I want to play Orient Express DEAL WITH IT. Orient Express is a deduction-based boardgame, so if the whole role-playing thing makes you sad and scared, hey! No imagination needed this week, just cold amoral logic. |
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I'll be around for the LOA part of the evening, but I will most likely drop out when you guys hop on the train, as I've been gone all day and I have a bit much shit to do still before bed.
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Ok, we're rolling, if anybody else wants to get their train on let me know
Additional Spam: Orient Express' Working-Well-Over-The-Internet Quotient: Poor |
Someone put a bomb in the DJ's briefcase!
CLUE: it may have exploded at 5:55 in compartment 26, or maybe it was the ENTREPRENEUR with the candlestick in the powder room, who the fuck knows! |
But it could have also been the non-existent ballerina!
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The ballerina exists. However, she was in the saloon.
Additional Spam: Apparently there are like 5 different printings of this game and none of them are inter-compatible wheeeee |
I got flashbacks of talking to town's people in Simon's Quest by the end of the session.
"Destroy the curse and you'll rule Brahm's Mansion" Huh. "Rumor has it, the Ferryman at the Dead River loves garlic" Good to know. "Believe in magic and you'll be saved" Will do, Gov'ner! And my favorite: "Take my daugther, please!!" What Also, I didn't know explosives were such a popular hobby at the start of the 20th century. I guess they had to find something to do with no internet and all. |
FWIW I found how to send private messages in Maptool and also a set of cases that actually match the board so next week hopefully the game will work as intended.
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Tomorrow's session is canceled on account of I am up to my neck in so much stupid bullshit this week you don't even know.
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Good.
I completely forgot that I had a beer outing with some bros and was about to post that I had to bail this week. |
Works for me as well, I had a workshop all weekend so it'll give me time to catch up on what I should have been doing.
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This is fantastic. I completely forgot about it until just now. I have no idea why either.
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Who's been playing that wouldn't be able to if we moved this to Friday/Saturday?
Who's not been playing that would if we moved it to Friday/Saturday? (I ask this second question because fully half of the people that expressed interest in Game Night as a concept have never showed the fuck up and I prefer to believe it is a scheduling issue rather than assume you're all just jerks.) |
I think I'd be okay for the weekend. Kinda makes it nice in a way. I don't have to worry about waking up early exhausted the next day for school if we did it on a Friday/Saturday. Oh.... damn.... yeah it would. I have Tennis on Saturday morning at 9 AM in a week or so. Ah well, in any case I think I'd be alright.
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Depends on how late on Saturdays. Saturdays are usually my liquor/hockey/liquor-and-hockey nights, but it's usually very late when we start (10:30 PM, give or take).
I am down for whatever. I think it would be easier if we had a single day instead of alternating every week, though. I would have far less trouble keeping track of the dates in my head that way. |
I'd be all for doing this on weekends, I do most of my work on weekdays so it's actually better on weekends for me. I might be called in to work every once in a while, so I may miss the odd session if you do decide to make it on weekends. Probably wouldn't happen too often though, at least not until May or so when outdoor events become more frequent.
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Does asking this imply we aren't doing it this Wednesday and are instead waiting a few more days?
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I could do fridays, still can't do Wed
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Tuesdays and Wednesdays tend to be busy for me these days, so thus my lack of attendance. |
I'm having that surgery on Friday afternoon so I don't know how good I'll be at staying awake or sitting upright or any of that stuff, heh. It's day surgery though (so they tell me) it shouldn't be too bad.
Worst case I'll just lay in bed with my iPad and Skype and trudge through it. :3: |
Ok, Friday sounds good for everybody so far (well, aside from the surgery issue but that's not a long-term problem hopefully)! I would rather deprive Acer of sleep than deprive Skills of liquor because I have my priorities in order goddamn it.
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So good to know you care that much about Skills' liver. Friday sounds good. Same time I'm guessing? 9 PM?
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So guess what I still haven't really had time to do a whole lot of fancy conversion work but we've spent like weeks now sitting around with characters and not playing them! So I'm just going to stick my hand into the Big Bag O' Adventures and we'll just convert something on the fly! THIS WILL END WELL!
(rummage, rummage) KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS. Oh boy oh boy! But first, Orient Express, played actually properly with like secrecy and such. And also potentially fewer experts in explosives? Who can say. 9 PM (EST) tonight! Additional Spam: FUCK I just realized I have to find token images for a canary wizard |
It's a wonder really that the train didn't just go up in a blaze as soon as it left the station on its maiden voyage, if the game is painting any kind of an accurate picture of it.
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Okay! Looks like nobody but Rychord even remembered that this is a thing that we do! Rychord is a pretty cool guy but I don't think he can play a board game all by himself! Especially when the dude who hosts the games for us is MIA. Better luck next week, everybody!
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OH! SO THAT'S WHY I SHOULDN'T BE MESSING AROUND INSTALLING WIN8 ON A FRIDAY NIGHT. SILLY SILLY ME.
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Is this for your space invader PC that sounds like it's coming to get us every time?
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I FEEL BAD NOW
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I was actually still up at 2am last night (Which I think is 9pm EST) and I considered joining in but then figureed I wasn't going to stay up late and then I was still up at 4am anyway.
But if you're making it a regular Friday night thing there's a significantly higher chance of me joining in. |
Yes. It will continue to be on Friday night (at 9 PM EST). There is no time in the foreseeable future when it will not be on Friday night (at 9 PM EST). Certainly, when you all collectively think of Game Night, you should think of Friday night (at 9 PM EST), and, vice versa, when you think of Friday night (at 9 PM EST) you should think of Game Night. Always.
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Much as I don't want to, I'm going to have to be absent from the session this Friday, as my GF's folks are coming to town and she'll be at work in the evening so it'll fall on me to entertain them until she gets back. Hopefully I won't miss too much info on Anglerre so that I'm good to get back in next time.
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Hi! Game Night is tonight! In 30 minutes! Wow! Maybe it would be fun or maybe not.
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I HONESTLY FELT BAD LAST WEEK.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA. NO WAY I WAS GONNA FUCK IT UP TWICE. GOD DAMN IT |
Seriously though are you guys seriously just THIS GODDAMN FORGETFUL or is this some passive-aggressive nerd bullshit here where you just hate trains and don't want to get confrontational about it
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I am terrible. And hospitalized. I should've Skyped in because I'm kinda high on painkillers. Might've been fun.
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Well, looks like I won't be missing any info after all.
Pang, I was thinking that maybe if you post the reminder earlier (like say noon) some of the more forgetful members will see it in time? |
Plaster it all over facebook, too.
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Aw, man. I was completely out of it yesterday - dead tired. Completely forgot about it. :(:(:(:(
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I'm STILL in the hospital. D: Hopefully I'll be out by Friday, but there's still no saying for sure at this point.
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Yeah my laptop fan can be atrocious. Maybe I should get a USB keyboard/mouse and hook my laptop up to my TV and string the mic as far away with a USB extension cable as I can. It's an idea~
Also hopefully I'll be conscious Friday night after work. I fucking zonked out last night. I need to get my sleeping schedule in order. Woke up at like 3 am and read terrible books until like I dunno an hour ago cuz hungry 'n' stuff. |
APPARENTLY they're releasing me today, so I will be home. At least that's the plan. I'll try to be there.
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OKAY ONE MORE TRY
There is a thing tonight? We get on Skype and play some games, it is pretty fun when people actually remember to attend. Ok! So that's at 9 PM (EST) tonight, and what is planned is some Orient Express (which is a mystery-solving type boardgame) and then also the classic D&D adventure Keep on the Borderlands run with a weird-ass new system most of us hardly understand at all! And since I make these planning decisions more or less with no fuckin' input from you chumps, if you wanna play something else let me know! Okay awesome! |
HOLY SHIT
I THINK I COULD POSSIBLY REMEMBER IT COULD HAPPEN GUYS! MAYBE IT'LL BE TODAY |
I REMEMBERED
But it doesn't look like I'll be around tonight. :( I'll actually be in NY with my roommate, visiting a friend I haven't seen in ages. Sorry! |
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what's going on tonight? is it friday yet?
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I am welling with a sense of potential disappointment SO MAYBE?
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All we need is Skills now.
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Guys why don't you wanna play games with us
We are pretty funny And we have pie Additional Spam: (elephant noises) |
If you want to start doing it three hours earlier I'm bang up for it. As it was I fell asleep with about twenty minutes to go. Old age does that to a chap you know.
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Ehh, it might be worthwhile to start earlier anyways, seeing as Skills starts falling asleep around 10 PM. Was trying to be considerate of people further west but to no avail! 6 might be a little iffy for everyone else but maybe it could be pushed back a little. I'm hella flexible.
Gonna at least finish Orient Express before I shake anything else up though. |
I'd be glad to do this earlier as well, just because that way we could probably make sessions a bit longer to prepare for those days when someone forgets, we have connection problems, or wild animals attack us on the way.
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Bad news, I got called in for work tomorrow at 10PM, so I won't be able to make the game night session unfortunately. :(
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Well, shit. Can you upload your OE notes somewhere so that Sousuke (or whoever) can cover for you?
(Unless you were writing them by hand in a cramped, illegible scrawl in which case FFFFFFFF) We really ought to start having backup plans for this sort of thing. I imagine a lot of us still have UT2K4 installed due to Dope's thing, so that can be our go-to "fuuuuuck only two people showed up" plan until we work out something more concrete. Better than waiting around for an hour making sad noises. |
I was so sure I was on the right track to solve this thing too. :tpg:
Here are my notes. Use them wisely. |
Anyways I love reminding you guys about stuff you should already know, so: tonight? at 9?
UNLESS Acer is hosting MANLIEST DRINK-ON tonight, apparently he hasn't decided yet but if that happens obviously that takes priority. |
I'm still not sure when I'll be doing the manly drink on. I'm sure I could snag the movies in time for it to happen tomorrow. Not sure I'm feeling it right now. If people want it this weekend that's fine. Next weekend works too. I haven't really advertised it is all.
Also drink on is definitely not happening tonight. I have shit to do Saturday morning. I can make allowance for game night though. Maybe it's me talking for this moment in time but I'd rather be sleeping but whatever. I'm just tired right now. Can't get enthused about anything in particular. |
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And conversely I feel like I've sprung that decision on you making some sort of weird pull and tug OH MAN I'M AN AWFUL PERSON thing - NO IT IS I WHO IS THE AWFUL - NAY, I AM THE PERSON MAKING THE THING TO DO THE OTHER THING BECAUSE OF THING - CODSWALLOP I DISAGREE - I DISAGREE WITH DISAGREEMENT HARUMPH. However, if that's what you'd like to do I'm game for that too. And so rolls the ball of ME BEING AWFUL. [/self-loathing]
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NO IT IS I WHO IS THE WORST
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IS THIS A THING THAT IS HAPPENING TONIGHT? WHY IS MY CAPS LOCK ON? I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER IT BEING ON WHEN I STARTED TYPING. HOW ODD.
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PANG, WHERE IS GAME NIGHT???????? :confused: :(:confused::(
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Welp, I don't see him on aim. Guess not tonight. Kinda tired so perhaps it's for the best.
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Guess I'll have to settle for starting that Heroes of Might and Magic 6 then. :p
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Everybody gets to take a turn forgetting that this is a thing.
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I'm starting to think this worked better on Tuesdays
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Well 2 votes for Tuesday is the closest thing to a consensus I ever get so why the fuck not! Game Night TOMORROW. Hopefully everyone was a gentleman and refrained from peeking at Ry's notes, and then hopefully we can finally — FINALLY — get on with the adventures of Petey and his horrible retinue.
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oh lol and here i was scrambling to get the server and client stuff ready
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I completely missed Pang's post until now to be honest, but if this is back to Tuesdays I'll definitely keep it in mind from now on.
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1) Nothing this friday and then starting on next tuesday. 2) YES this friday, since it's a holiday, and then starting on next tuesday. Also, I apologize for my early bed shit and my other whackiness. I wish I could describe how busy I've been in the last month. But I find myself passing out involuntarily pretty early. That feel :( |
what holiday is it in canuckville? cuz i certainly don't have off
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you think Yankeedoodle Jesus Town would have Good Friday off. Because y'know JESUS |
Just to let you guys know, I have a supper at a restaurant tomorrow with some friends at 5:30PM, but I should be back in time for the game session. If I run a bit late, hopefully someone can fill in for me either until I get back, or until the end of train train caboose bonanza.
My notes are already posted a bit higher in the thread for anyone who would be willing to do so. |
God dammit we will finish this goddamn train tonight if I have to play all three parts myself
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well i have the server up and running
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PLAYER OF THE WEEK: ACER
KILLS: 25 TOWN GUARDS (demoralized into suicide), 1 BEGGAR (drowned), 3 CHILDREN (smothered), 1 KOBOLD (punched into gibs) Additional Spam: NEXT WEEK: HEROQUEST Additional Spam: Legend of Anglerre is a hilarious system until combat breaks out at which point well it's still hilarious but |
So the world's worst detectives, working together to fail miserably at solving anything on the train, don't make much better adventurers either.
Within 36 hours they managed to kill a hobo by throwing a wet robe off the top of a house, personally fluff over 1000 pillows, murder 3 children with downy softness, punch a house into rubble, and convince half of the city guard to commit ritualistic suicide before stripping their corpses naked. And then take three real hours to figure out how to play hide and seek with kobolds until they stress out and die. |
Props to Stop Sign for adjusting to our absolute bullshit madness with remarkable aplomb
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We have the best fucking foie gras and don't you forget it
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Are you sure you're not a goose? Perhaps you should investigate.
I liked the part where there was soot. |
I can't believe that my chimneysweep, specifically designed for nothing if not soot finding got out-sooted by kobolds EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Composure stress here I come thanks for the very sciencey healing Acer! :D |
I liked that time when the kobolds found no soot whatsoever but you still managed to find less soot than that.
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Negative soot is all the rage these days I hear.
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I'M A JEWEL MERCHANT, I MERCHANT JEWELS
Hope you guys are ready to master the arts of combat
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Sorry, folks - with the amount of work I have on my plate, I won't be participating tonight.
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Well, crap. I guess we need a fourth for HeroQuest, then. It's a pretty simple game, folks! I am not even dreading trying to teach it to Acer! Much!
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Turn 1: I cast all of the spells! On myself!
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UGG UNABLE TO FIND PANTS
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TONIGHT: MORE HERO'S QUESTINGS, with dungeon elements that aren't "yup, another orc".
If somebody wants to show up so Rychord can stop mixing up his Toots and his Roots that would be okay! Because trying to control an Elf and a Dwarf simultaneously is, in fact, antithetical to all that is right and good. I was thinking next week we could take a short break for some electronical gamery, suggestions? Probably something emulated since the pool of PC/Mac cross-compatible titles is still pretty anemic. Definitely some gems in there though. http://www.saxypunch.com/pang/FARM.jpg |
Is there a reason it has to be cross-platform?
If it's because of me, then it isn't a problem because I've installed Windows 7 in Bootcamp recently so I can have access to more than one game out of ten. If it's just a question of keeping it accessible to the most people possible then by all means let's do it this way. |
Well I was thinking of you in particular but yeah in general it would be nice to make things as open as possible.
Also I sort of wanted an excuse to buy Farming Simulator. Either way I'm open to suggestions. |
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Okay, I got all my work done in time, so I'm in!
Also Magicka is a great idea. I'm utterly incompetent at that game so that makes it an even better idea. |
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I'm down with that. And by "that", I mean "resurrecting Skills, then mowing him down with a lightning beam, over and over".
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Stop Sign survives with ONE HIT POINT
Everyone else is mowed down in pursuit of an empty chest Save Skills, who died two hours ago because he just COULDN'T STOP SUMMONING MONSTERS |
CONVENIENT SCROTUM
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Yeah, he dies and then reminds Pang that he can pull the ole switcheroo to kill the rest of us.
I hope I never come up against Skills DM'ing. |
Dr. Conveni N. Scrotums, Subterranean Urologist
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there's just too many chaos warriors behind the door and even the potion you previously trawed that only heals you for 4 body points that you sneakily told pang "it restores up to all lost body points" while reading the card out loud like the cheating son of a bitch you are isn't even enough that shit sounds dumb when read out loud and you can't believe no one called you on your bullshit you were at 3 body points at the time which the potion would have only brought up to 7 body points so perhaps you would have died by the hands of the first chaos warrior behind the door instead of the second leading to an earlier demise for root ah well |
I work with medical research papers for a living, and now all I'm going to think when I see So and So MD PhD is scrotes.
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Honestly a lot of those treasure cards AREN'T quite right so I figured there was a nonzero chance that the guy who built the campaign file was the asshole and not you.
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IN THE SPLIT SECOND WHERE YOU DECIDE WHAT YOUR LIE TO PANG WILL BE YOU THINK...
WHAT KIND OF CARD WOULD GIVE YOU 5 BODY POINTS WHEN THE PREVIOUS ONES HAVE BEEN EVEN INTEGERS SO YOU GO WITH THE WORD "ALL" INSTEAD OF A NUMBER EVEN THOUGH THAT KINDA SOUNDS DUMB BUT HEY IT COULD HAPPEN MAYBE |
"Doctor Scrotty McButterfingers to obstetrics"
*kkkrrrrsch* "Doctor Scrotty McButterfingers to obstetrics" |
You should play Advanced Heroquest some time, the addition of Skaven makes everything better.
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AdvHQ is so complicated by the standard of board games I might as well just steal the random-dungeon-generation tables and just play WFRP.
(and if Game Night ever gets back to proper RPGs it probably will be in the form of random dungeons, since this crew would only repay efforts to create a plot or memorable NPCs with wanton murder) |
We can't even play the basic Hero Quest by the rules, so that should serve as an indication of what kind of party we're talking about here.
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Or to be more accurate, we can play by the rules, but we keep throwing ourselves into pits for whatever reason~
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It has occurred to me that Magicka multiplayer maxes out at 4 players. While it's possible (likely, really) that someone will be indisposed, maybe it would be good to have an alternate plan. I'm trying to think of something other than an FPS that'll support 5 players and coming up short. Something where we can inadvertently murder each other would be best.
We'll still do Magicka if we end up with only 4 people but I don't want anyone to get left out just because they hopped on Skype a few minutes late. (And we'll still have Magicka as a backup for the next 4-players night) |
Well, if there's more than 4 players then they can at least watch the stream with the audio muted while skyping if they want to follow along. That's assuming I'm one of the players.
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All right, lacking any other suggestions I guess tonight is Magicka regardless of playercount. So either show up on time or be prepared to sit around looking stupid while we have all the fun, neener neener, etc etc
OR: find 3 more players so we can have comedy wizard team racing battel |
I'm in for this, I've DL'ed the game already and gave it a small whirl just so I wouldn't look like a complete idiot come game time. I can tell this is going to be rather epic. Or maybe a total and complete disaster, whichever.
Quick question though: how are we setting up the chat? is there an in-game voice chat, or are we going to Skype at the same time? |
Pretty sure we'll still be Skyping it up, Magicka has no internal voice support.
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Welp, it looks like I'm going to be too busy again tonight. Sorry folks :(
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I died again. :mad:
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a lightning bolt smashing into your face the instant you respawn. Forever.
v Oh christ yes. "What's my ability? Smoke Bomb? Let's see what... um." |
I still don't understand how we made it out of that first dungeon, between the mutual slaughter and Pang's many bombs of game-breaking smoke.
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So you guys just want to keep hammering at this thing until we beat it, or just hold onto it for Stopless nights? I don't think it's actually possible to get "out of practice" here.
When (if?) we finish Magicka, I figure VG night might be fun with Titan Quest. With the XMAX mod preferably for 400 mobs on screen six bosses at once funtime action. Damn thing goes on sale for $5 every month or two, so. |
WELL COOL THANKS FOR YOUR FEEDBACK
Tonight: HQ, or Magicka if somebody goes missing! Again! |
Finishing Magicka sounds good to me. Gonna have to yell at me to remember probably.
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I'm down with either option. I thought I had posted about that before but apparently not.
So fry me with a lightning bolt. Or harpoon me into a pit of endless wandering monsters. Either way, I'm in. |
I've been waiting for the burly men to stop banging away at my roof (supposed to be done 45 minutes ago!), but aside from that, I'm up for gaming tonight - hopefully the background noise won't be too much of an issue.
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oh crap - we could actually do this bullshit game on the forums couldn't we?
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Hey guys, unfortunately I almost certainly will not be able to make it tomorrow, as I'm on a trip in New Brunswick and I'm going to be visiting my GFs folks tomorrow evening.
Hope you guys have a good one nonetheless! Here's my Hero Quest character sheet, in case you guys decide to go that route. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22011322/root%20the%20elf.pdf |
As much as I'd like to traw some treasures, perhaps if we're down you (it wouldn't be fair to run either Magicka or Hero Quest without you I think), we could do like...Minecraft? Terrorize Acer's server?
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lol my poor minecraft server
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If they made a bukkit plugin for that I might consider it. However, it looks like everyone needs to inject that in their client jar and I into the server jar which is far more complicated than I like. But basically this mod turns the game into resource hunting with a high focus on gold for your health - cuz otherwise gold is useless. There are other ways to turn the game into a huge pain in the ass. Not a bad find though.
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I honestly have never played Minecraft (nor really ever expressed any interest in it)... As such, I don't have the client or anything either. I guess I might potentially be able to be coerced into playing, though. I mean, I never really 'got' the point, but it seems like it could be fun with other people.
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I hope you guys don't mind starting a bit late. I've been working out in the back yard digging trenches and planting shit ALL DAY. I'm only starting to eat in like I dunno a few minutes. So don't expect me until like 9:30. I'll poke my head into here and post again when I'm ready. And by ready I mean probably cobbling something together for tonight's minecraft server.
Sousuke, if you're super interested in minecraft I still have two account codes to give away. I've given accounts codes to lurker, shade, and skills so far. |
Dinner's running late for me too so a 9:30 start is fine.
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"It looks like some kind of discharge."
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Damn, I hate myself for missing this now, I've been meaning to try Minecraft for the longest time now.
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Ah, but it only happened because you were absent. Such is your curse.
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We're going to do what we do every week, Pinky. Play HQ unless something goes wrong.
So I have absolutely no idea really |
My Spiral Staircase has surpasses the Boner Mountain...??? LOL.
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I'm gonna level that whole goddamn town the next time I can't do a corpse run because there's 500 fences in the way. NOTHING MUST INTERFERE WITH THE ASCENT OF MT. BONERMANJARO
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Well if we don't want to do more d&d things tonight we can always do more minecraft. I actually found a neat game we can do if we don't want to muck around more in broville. Now hold off on your judgements a moment but despite its source inspiration this is actually a really good game - The Survival Games based off of The Hunger Games.
The Survival Games Minecraft Project You may not like the book or the movie but its minecraft inspired game is actually really really fun. You basically start in the middle of a cornucopia with up to 24 other players. They'll explain the rules every time but basically there is no destroying blocks besides tree leaves, grass, and mushrooms. There are chests in the middle of the cornucopia that you can grab supplies out of once released and/or you can flee to the rest of the map to find things in chests hidden throughout the land. The purpose of the game is to be the last man standing. Teaming up is allowed although the mods may summon things to try and scatter you but they might fuck with individuals who are camping out too. The idea is to be constantly on the move trying to better your situation and take out others if you can. When someone dies thunder will sound. You'll probably hear a lot of that at the beginning. When the last man is standing the winner will be declared and the server will restart to start the game anew. Items are usually random in most of the chests near as I can tell but you'll probably figure out which chests you like to go after best. Oh yeah, it's not all super boring once you die either. Once dead you become a host. You can fly around the map and depending on how many kills you got give helpful items to the remaining players. You will be invisible to the remaining players but not to other hosts. Hosts can also only talk to other hosts. It also gives you an opportunity to explore the map and figure out a better strategy for next time. If you've never flown in minecraft it's double spacebar to engage and then spacebar to go up and shift to go down. Double spacebar again to disengage. I figure if we all team up using our skype session then we might be able to take out a bunch of other public players if we're lucky enough to get good items. So what say you guys? Sound good? And if we end up not liking it we can always go back to broville or some other d&d game. The server we should play on is: 63.141.250.234:25565 or 63.141.250.234:25566 Feel free to play on it ahead of time to get in some practice. They're up all day near as I can tell. Games can last anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes. And if we get bored of that map they also have another map that is more city-based than wilderness. It's listed on the link above but I'll post it here if we decide to do that. To get a good idea of what this is like check out this youtube:
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That sounds like so much fun, but I can't tonight - I'm getting hammered with work today, and when I'm not working, my wife will probably want me to play Diablo 3 with her.
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I'd love to get in on this, but alas--no Minecraft!
...That being said even if I COULD get in on it, I've never even played so I'd probably be the first to die. XD |
Decided to give this a spin. Got killed immediately by a guy named dbz0wn4g3. Got opped after about 5 minutes wait. Flew around. Flying ability seemed to toggle itself on and off more or less at random. Eventually it shut off while I was in midair over a lava pit. Spent about 30 minutes sitting in lava unable to escape while the three surviving players circlejerked over their ever-so-cunning alliance and quibbled over the trade value of a stick.
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...how about UT2K4?
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I am down with anything that doesn't involve sitting around with our heads in our hands waiting for some chucklefuck we don't even know to decide to allow us to leave a cage.
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From Pang's post regarding Hunger Games, it doesn't sound very fun to me.
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I actually love Hero Quest. If your saying it's my turn to suggest something, that would be great for me, going back to the root of game night, which was board games.
P.S. Acer and I won the last Hunger Game we played, which was just two after you left :p |
Heroquest is fun. I don't mind playing it if that's what people want.
Again, sorry for tonight. I think Hungergames Minecraft would probably be more fun if we could round up like 15 GFF people if I could host it with all the proper server mods like the server we were on. Problem is rounding up that many people. Even ten people might be alright. By the way Ry and I teamed up after you guys left and we totally won even after he got stuck and had to warp back to the center losing all his items. Gave him my spare sword and some armor and we just wrecked everyone's shit. So ^5 buddy. Anyway, if you guys want to do UT2k4 or some other game that we have to download ahead of time then you should voice your opinion so we can well you know download it ahead of time. |
And now Acer is wearing my face as a mask. :(
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Do you like Rychord
Do you want him on your body |
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Might I suggest Board Game Online for one night? It's rather fun, can get hilarious... It's pretty much “Screw the Other Players and Get to the End First: The Game”. Exactly the kind of thing that is conducive to a bunch of us playing games over Skype.
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Well, there's always the chance Acer will go MIA again. How long does a round take/can you make private games?
NEXT week, hopefully, 5th Edition playtest. The playtest docs are supposed to go out on the 24th, so hopefully I'll have time to figure some of it out. From what they've explained in the articles it looks like a real clusterfuck since they're busting ass trying to pander to old greybeards without actually turning the game back into an unbalanced shitheap. (spoiler: the attempt ends in pleasing no-one) |
A round can take anywhere from 20-30 minutes to... well, the game I'm on now has actually been going for an hour and a half now. It all depends on how much fuckery goes on. :3: But yeah, you can make private games. There's also various options for team play.
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So, is everyone in for Hero Quest tonight? I'm looking At you: Stop Sign, Skills, Acer, and Pang!
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Mmm, mmm. Perhaps, sir.
But how about...Magicka? http://colonelskills.belkanairforce....templative.jpg |
Well, It all depends on how many people can make it / are not in a comma.
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I don't even like Magicka very much but sometimes I just wanna get it over with so we can stop mulling over whether we should play it or not
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I'm up for whatever you guys want. I've been doing testing for the Maine meet basement setup all day. Magicka would be fun if everyone wants to get that over and done with. Fair warning: I'll listen in on the skype if we start at 9 pm but can only really talk when my basement clears of people so address me if I'm being a moron I'll be listening but not talking back - unless Magicka has some unknown text function I'm not aware of. Anyway I'm game in an hour if you guys are.
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Since's it's Magicka, I'll bail to make it the right number of players - not because I don't like Magicka, but because I'm once again tied up with work because of the EuroPCR meeting that happened over the weekend.
Next week I should be free though! |
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Well, I've found the weapon of choice.
Yes, the Tron Disc. Simple, elegant, and deadly to all but self. |
I can't wait to spend 3 hours making a D&D 5e character next week
I wonder if there are any peanut butter mineshafts about |
I am scared of what kind of character Skills will make when there aren't any robots available
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TURNS OUT: Character generation rules NOT INCLUDED! Hope you suckas like pregens.
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I'm terrible and I think I like all of these things! ='D
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Just a heads up for tonight: I've been called in for work at 5, but I've been told it wouldn't be a long job, so I may or may not be back by 9.
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Only to the limited extent that frequently-dead wizards will be involved.
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I'll be around for whatever nonsense shows up tonight!
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Looks like I just got back in the nick of time! :-D
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But all that is for naught
PANG WHERE YOU AT BRO |
Well, I probably should get back to work, then. Maybe next week?
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oh good job i forgot about this thing - was upgrading the tower i'm bringing to the meet - just finished getting it cleaned and situated only to have it fucking flake out on me
now i have to reinstall god damn everything i did two weeks ago WHAT THE FUCK |
I want to think next week, yeah sure.
also acer how did you do that :( |
i did nothing
all i did was take out the motherboard so i could put in a new backplane for the new cpu fan, put in the new cpu fan, install a few smaller fans, and reconnect everything and then the piece of shit says it won't boot off the harddrive - it recognizes the fucker - i disconnect all other devices - only the fucking harddrive should boot - nope it's like fuck man this makes no sense to me try again maaaan - so i'm like fuck this and reinstall the os - it's installed now - computer is up - now all i need to do is reinstall all the drivers, updates, software, and configure wowza AGAIN - and test all the shit AGAIN plus some new things like the cables that came in and also the blu ray drive FUUUUUUCK - os is installed - i'm doing the rest of this shit tomorrow sometime - so lame - so very very lame - here i am trying to prep like 4 weeks in advance and shit goes south - i am bringing backup harddrives with me to the meet and cloning this stupid harddrive once i've finalized everything with it so in the event of it flaking out again i can restore that shit to a new drive in 40 minutes |
I always feel a little guilty when I have to bail on this but it always turns out that Acer exploded or fell into a lake or got eaten by a hyena or something anyways so moot point
PS: Philia I saw how much work you did on the tower, thanks so much, damn |
So, again, sorry about last night. I had an appointment to... there was an emergency with... okay honestly I was just really tired okay and the more I read that rules packet the less I ever want to play it.
As for next week, how do we feel about The Ship? I just picked it up off Indie Royale, and I got two free copies to give out. And apparently anyone I give a copy to also gets a free copy so we can keep the chain going and maybe get a larger group in on this. Who knows. Anyways if you want it speak up provided you pass it on (or just go buy the bundle for $5 whatever) |
We could also finish Magicka, so we never have to look at it again.
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We could not, and say we did.
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I had a system! We'll take turns, I said! And then you picked a thing and then somehow the system broke I don't know what
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Oh yeah, I finally figured out why the fire damage/blast damage restore plugin stopped working. I think...
Acer would need to reinstall those or something. He was talking about his poor pc woes earlier too. |
I just took the opportunity of you not being on the server to save it, quit it, and start it up again. The creeperheal plugin you are referring to appears to be working for me.
Also Philia, Pang is referring to the a member picks what game to play for the week turn system thing. |
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Probably and probably. It was really late. Tired etc.
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So I assume everyone's in meet mode lockdown and get shit down before flyin' on a plane mode?
I know I am, and in fact I have a family dinner to take care of before leaving, and that will be on Tuesday during our time, unfortunately. So if something happens I'm out for this week. |
Yeah, I have a few things to get done and I don't know if they'll get done by Tuesday either. If I have time it'll probably be another web games/whatever night, I guess. Maybe try that board game thing Sousuke linked us to. I doubt Acer has any computers available that aren't dedicated to FRENZIED CALCULATIONS anyway.
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Well I will kind of be in meet lock down this week. I could possibly do something on Tuesday but it would probably be better time spent on meet prep. That said I'd honestly like to be prepped and ready to go like well before the night of. Like Wednesday max. But yeah ever since my computer blew a gasket for no reason I do still have a few things I need to test out. Also I need to make some clone images just in case that shit happens again. |
Not that anyone gives a shit about Game Night right now but I just wanted to briefly express my joy that the browser-based virtual tabletop I told you guys about is now in open beta so now we will never ever ever have to use Maptools ever again
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Sorry guys, I won't be around tonight. Possible new client+work from old clients+suddenly being a manager again= head explode.
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Are we doing this thing tonight or not? From reading the recent posts it seems everyone is in lock down mode for meet or otherwise busy. Am I right in assuming this?
I don't have any obligations tonight, but obviously if everyone else is too busy... |
Yeah, consider Game Night on hiatus until the 19th, I reckon.
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TUESDAY JUNE 19:
MAGICKA? HQ? ARTEMIS? THE RETURN OF BLEHONK? VOTE NOW Additional Spam: ADMINS MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR A THREAD TO HAVE MORE TAGS MY CREATIVITY IS CONSTRAINED |
oh god let's just finish and bury magicka
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WELP GUESS THAT COUNTS ME OUT.
Oh well. I can just play Magicka BY MY SELF I DON'T NEED YOU GUYS ANYWAY :mad: |
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So is this thing happening tonight?
Are we going to go see what happens to that guy who isn't even a vampire in the end, so Pang can be at peace forever more? |
This is happenin' provided Acer isn't too busy swimming in the cash Sprout insisted on pouring over his head
V Hopefully we will be done with Goddamned Magicka by the time you're free, Stop |
I'm going to have to pass tonight; once again, work's kicking my ass (and likely will keep doing this until July)!
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ACER IS ASLEEP FOREVER. THEREFORE, BOARD GAME ONLINE
Board Game Online Additional Spam: FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR MAGIC HAMMER, JUAN |
So I hear tales of Magicka occurring tonight. Were they lies? Or were they LIES?! The tallest of tales I think. Sometimes when a person comes out of the movie theater and texts a man in charge about this and calls another man who is in lieu of certain events to tell other members he expects shit to not end in 5 minutes. Oh well. I HOPE YOU GUYS HAD AS MUCH FUN AS ME WATCHING AN ANIMAL CIRCUS MEETS KALEIDO STAR DISCO NEON UNTZ UNTZ FEVER PALACE RESCUE MISSION BOOGALOO 3. Cuz it was a pretty good time not gonna lie.
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TONIGHT: MAGICKA
UNLESS ACER IS SERIOUSLY DOING THIS SHIT ON PURPOSE TO DRIVE ME INTO A MURDEROUS BLOOD FRENZY IN WHICH CASE: MURDEROUS BLOOD FRENZY |
I am going to the movies.
Tomorrow. Magicka. Tonight. :cool: |
BRIEF, ABORTIVE MURDEROUS BLOOD FRENZY FOLLOWED BY SHAME, PERVERSE DISAPPOINTMENT
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UPDATE:
MAGICKA CONQUERED, UNINSTALLED, SPAT UPON, BURNED, THROWN INTO AN UNCONSECRATED GRAVE, AND DROPPED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA Additional Spam: To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. Additional Spam: Next week: |
I love a game that makes me redo levels as often because I died as it does when it just wants me to start over so badly.
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I remember this place. This is the place where dwarves knocked down walls on top of dragons. This is the place where Optimus Prime made a kobold head-on-a-stick. This is a good place.
Are the details of dates and times from the front post still true, or have things shifted? I know these things tend to shift around some. And i miss you guys :( |
GFF Gamenight is 9 PM EST on Tuesday nights.
Uhhh... normal dnd forum games are an entirely different thing. |
Yeeeeaaaah I tried to make Game Night be about D&D stuff but in practice that doesn't really work since the three hours a week we have to work with doesn't allow for a whole lot of progress in D&D terms (Plus, Acer will cheat like a bastard if not monitored constantly). So when we do tabletop stuff on Game Night it's boardgames or light RPGs (and even then it is a tremendous clusterfuck). Maybe after astronaut time I can negotiate us away from computer games (which were my idea what the hell).
Everybody's welcome regardless and Moonbase Alpha is free to play, so. By all means come and AEIOU with us. BUT the play-by-post stuff is also coming back real soon? And by soon I mean I'm a try to get signups going tonight I hope I hope |
Acer: i meant GFF as a whole, not just Game Night. Also - GFF DnD was never normal.
Pang: i'll have to see if i can make it, this tuesday i'll probably be on the road at 9 EST, but i'll definitely try to make it at some point. Will take a closer look at the new play by post thing when it isn't 3am. We'll see if i can join in properly (being that my play style tended to lack creativity, it's really similar to zerg's (minus the trying to help others munchkin constantly)) |
So are we going to the moon tonight?
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NO ONE CAN SAVE YOU NOW
DAD NO PLEASE Additional Spam: IT IS NOW MOON TIME LET'S TO GO TO MOON Additional Spam: what the hell you are all traitors to moon law the beacon god will punish you Additional Spam: except for acer since he has an arm arms ain't nothin' to fuck with |
ALL HAIL THE BEACON GOD
DO NOT PRAISE THE FALSE BEACON FOR IT IS WHITE AND NOT PINK DO NOT BE LEAD ASTRAY BY ITS |
MOON HELL IS A REAL PLACE AND YOU WILL BE SENT THERE AT THE FIRST SIGN OF HERESY
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God damn I missed my chance to go to the moon. Completely forgot about moonland fun times bonanza in my planning for the river trip.
I'm actually at my folks place in NB right now and we're packing up to leave at 5AM tomorrow. Sorry guys. :( |
WE CAN SEND A MAN TO THE MOON
BUT, APPARENTLY, WE CANNOT SEND THREE MEN TO A SIMULATED MOON |
GUYS WE NEED THREE MORE COUPLERS
LIKE... FIVE MORE COUPLERS BRING ALL THE COUPLERS PANG WHAT ARE YOU DOING ARE YOU WORKING ON COUPLERS |
SKILLS
GET A WRENCH HELP WITH THESE HOSES Additional Spam: Alien Swarm on Steam Here, this is Tuesday's thing. Also free, also completely retarded. |
tonight i got trolled
so very hard so hard it fucked up my recording i then got trolled by my computer my face when i have no face just about as angry as can be the recording of the greatest troll to ever troll on gff game night is pretty much unwatchable i am sad :( |
Meanwhile, in robotland:
"how have they not connected any of those things yet? What are those flying thi- oh. ooooooooooohhhhhh." |
I don't know if the game is supposed to be on tonight or not, but I'll most likely not be able to make it, I've got a dinner that was originally supposed to be a brunch or some such tonight.
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tell them you can't
priority one is aliens they be swarmin' |
GOD DAMN IT RYCHORD YOU WILL BE AN INCOMPETENT SPACEMAN OF SOME KIND AND YOU WILL LIKE IT
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Term is credit to team! From stream viewer to hero. What a bro!
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I like how Rychord was sooooo busy tonight but not too busy to watch the stream. YEAH WHAT UP WITH THAT
Yeah so, next week we'll finish up Alien Swarm, dunno if Term's coming back for that or what, hopefully so but god knows we'll never manage it without a fourth player of some kind. That shouldn't take more than half an hour (we very nearly made it tonight) so after that we'll be doing some more Pomme. E'erbody likes Pomme. On their bodies. |
Yeah, sorry about that, but I got home at 10:15PM and saw an email from Justintv so I decided to tune in. I hadn't downloaded the 2.5GB game yet, so that would have taken too long for me to hop in on time.
Zerg Rush 2.0 actually looked like quite a bit of fun, I'm kinda sad I only got to spectate. |
i've downloaded the game, but i might be a little late to the party - i'll hopefully be done work at 8:30 on Tuesday. That's assuming Alien Swarm doesn't have a leveling system wherein i will be profoundly underleveled and unhelpful.
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So who's the space team that's tackling the zerg rush tonight?
I'm asking because I've (finally) downloaded the game, but it seems we are too numerous who want in (Pang, Skills, Acer, Term(?), Hawk, meself). Obviously, since Term was the fourth last week, he should have priority to step back in if he wants in. I'm also willing to let Hawkeye take precedence over me if he's available, since I'm usually in just about every game we play with a player limit. |
We only need to finish the game, which is one more stage. After that we'll get in on apples to apples the gif bullshit like we did several weeks ago and lol at that.
Acer might also be late, of course, so there's that |
Yeah the goal is basically to get through this as quick as possible and then move on to the Pomme, so ideally we can get Term and his lovely medical gun that shoots life at you. Failing that, whoever we can get hold of first. If you can just fill all your item slots with medkits that would be super.
Sorry to anybody that downloaded the game and then gets left in the lurch, though at least it's free (I think we talked Stop Sign into buying Magicka and then never actually played it with him). In buying-terrible-games news, Sanctum is $2.49 on Steam for the next 8 hours. It uses the same text-to-speech engine as Moonbase Alpha but has actual levels and gameplay and such. I don't think I need to say anything else. Not playing it next week, I think (we are long overdue a return to the virtual tabletop and I have a malicious plan), but maybe the week after. |
Wait, did I miss Pomme? Is there still Pomme happening? :O
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WHERE IS MY GIF POMME
MY GIF, WHERE >:-| CATBUTTS EVERYWHERE |
OMG A DOG
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Topdecking dog gifs, for the win.
Also, bought Sanctum. Then realized i won't be around on the tuesday in question. *facepalm* :( |
There's no way we'd be getting through Sanctum in one night anyway.
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TUESDAY: Pathfinder. Yup.
But what is Pathfinder, Pang? Pathfinder is what happens when a 3rd-party adventure writing team decides they don't like 4th Edition, and thinks they can do better. And by "better", I mean they decide to copy edition 3.5, slap a couple errata stickers on it, and sell it. Pregens WILL be provided since character generation in 3.5 or any of its derivatives takes the better part of a day and that's with the (shitty, third-party) chargen software. We won't be using Maptool. There's a free web-based virtual table at roll20.net with all sorts of neat features Maptool could never manage since it's a pile of java garbage. I'm fairly sure you don't even need to sign up and I can just link you to the campaign URL. Guess we'll find out. |
All right, so Roll20 seems to be working okay so far as I can tell, we'll see how it holds up with actual players instead of me dicking around with the jukebox.
IN THEORY, this link should bring you to the right game: https://app.roll20.net/join/23137/eSRaYA |
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You are all the worst people trip report: pathfinder even worse than anticipated, somehow Additional Spam: I should mention one more thing for posterity. Hawkeye is incinerated because Skills' greedy ass sets off a massively overpowered fire trap. His ashes are scooped up and dumped into a magic fountain (which Rychord had previously pissed in). With the addition of a toy dragon and a charge from a wand of magic missile, Hawkeye was eventually resurrected as a piss-drenched cripple. Also, Skills straight-up refusing to use his healing spells to save Hawkeye's life |
I'd like to note how awesome a meatshield I was until we ran into a god damn dragon who did not give two shits about AC. 0 damage the entire game until instant death by dragon fire. I need to consider recording our games in a higher resolution. I got some good footage but you can't read any of the text. Ah well.
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And so they started off on their cave adventure, looking for a monster of sorts.
The FIGHTER: A man of tin and.... tin. Spoiler:
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and... Oh, yes, the ELF: A master of disguise, becoming all one color, and knifey, pointy things. Spoiler:
For a long time, they dinkered many opponents: Spoiler:
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I appreciated Pang's decision to arbitrarily resurrect my wizard, since our healer had shown no interest in doing so when he was so thoroughly incinerated, and i otherwise would have been left to watch, and we might have never discovered the secret of the obelisk.
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Somebody decided it was a cool and mysterious touch to have a MYSTERIOUS OBELISK that said "water" next to some water.
Somebody got paid for that. Additional Spam: And, for what it's worth, looked it up: black dragons are intended as an 8th-level enemy what the fuck |
Sanctum on Tuesday, right?
Or Shazbot? |
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Hey guys, just a little heads up to say that I will be going back home today until the 19 of August, and so I won't be able to join in for any Windows only gaming. I'll be spending time with family and friends, so So don't feel bad about playing whatever you want to!
If it so happens that you decide to play something that is mac friendly, I probably will be able to find the time to join in, except for tomorrow, when I'll most likely be too busy catching up with everyone back home. In any case, I'm pretty sure what you have lined up already is Win only anyway. Have fun guys! |
so are we doing sanctum or shazbot tonight?
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Well, Garr seems down for Tribes and since neither Rychord nor I can make it tonight I would recommend you go with that, since Sanctum is a tremendous pain in the ass with exactly two players.
Or, you know, whatever, make your own decisions gee golly gosh |
can you not make it because you can't download tribes in time or other reasons? cuz i mean it's not like we can't do tribes next week or something if that's the case. i think you said you already had sanctum and i don't mind buying and downloading it if that's the case
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THAT WAS ONE OF THE BEST PARTS
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What's this week, ladies?
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Because I'm stubbornly enforcing my muleheaded idea of alternating vidya and tabletop (and because Rychord can't swing Windows games for a while) this week is
ACTION CASTLE! which should be really, really quick so we should have time for FIASCO afterward. Seriously AC should take like 20 minutes tops assuming we don't get derailed by ahaahahahahahahaaaaa Neither of these games require any visual apparatus as such but we may as well do it on Roll20 for the music and doodling opportunities. Provide your soundtrack suggestions, if you like. A fifth player for Fiasco would be cool but not strictly necessary. |
i'm around again, but i'll be at work until 9pm mountain time, so i don't know if you guys will still be busy when i get back. Just don't count on me being around any sooner than that.
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Just a heads up that I might not make it this week.
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I might not be able to make it either, as I'm leaving for my own folks home tomorrow. (I've been at my GF's folks house since last Tuesday.)
I'm not sure at who's gonna be at my parents' house, if the house isn't too crowded I might be able to make it, as I am on Atlantic time here, and 10PM is a bit late for my parents if they are working the next day. |
Yeah I might be shit out of luck too.
If we're three down, do you just want to defer until next week? We can then move Shazbot II: Electric Shazaloo to the 21st. |
Well, shit.
TONIGHT: FUCKIN' NOTHING NOTHING |
lol as a strange turn of events I am actually around tonight after all
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Heads up: I probably won't be able to do tonight either. I know. I know. I'm terrible.
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you are
But I'm not. It's go time for whatever fuck yeah |
Ready and waiting.
Let's fuck this castle up! |
Arright, well, if we can get at least 4 total people somehow we can still go ahead with Lite RPG Nite
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TURNS OUT I'M ONLY SOMEWHAT TERRIBLE.
GAME ON, MOTHERFUCKERS. LET'S DO THIS. BUT FIRST. A QUICK SHOWER. |
Yeah, I'm still at my folks' home, eating jujubes.
Mmmm... jujubes. Edit: Looks like Acer, Skills and maybe Garr are in. |
HURRAY CHEAP STUPID RPGS FOREVER
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I'm here?
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ONE NIGHT ONLY: GHOST DICKS
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That actually went better than I expected, funny thing is
And Action Castle was hilarious I HAVE A STICK THERE IS AN ENEMY HERE WHAT DO Fuckin' 30+ possible Fiasco playsets, these guys pick out DRAGONS and latch onto it like a lamprey |
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OUCH!
You know there's an Action Castle 2, right Gonna be cash PS Frank you're welcome to join us for whatever in the future |
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So remember how I was gonna study the Fiasco rulebook and figure out what the fuck we were doing wrong?
Well I found the answer http://www.saxypunch.com/missile3/everything.png |
It was kind of hilarious listening to you dorklords. Can anybody just join in?
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If I let Skills play I don't know why I would bar anybody else
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Yeah, feel free to join in with us, lurks. Just join our skype session and follow the link in the thread to the game.
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So what's this week? Finish Fiasco and then SHAZBOT II?
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Honestly I think we fucked Fiasco up to the point where it's not really possible to finish. It's my fault.
NOTHIN' BUT SHAZBOT |
Bububububububuuuuu.....I have some outstanding dick exchanges that haven't been finalized yet. :(
Real real though, in how many ways did we fuck it up? How is it supposed to go down? Although I can't complain about a full night of Shazbot. |
Well, first thing is, everybody is supposed to have a relationship with (exactly) two other people.
At a physical table, the two people would always be your neighbors. Obviously over Skype that's a little trickier. In theory our relationship chain should look like this: Pang <-> Hawkeye <-> Rychord <-> Garr <-> Skills <-> Acer <-> But in practice it was kind of a jumbled mess. This is my fault, because you're supposed to sort out all the relationships before you even address locations/needs/stuff and I didn't do that at all. Each relationship was supposed to have at least one Detail, which we also didn't do (although I did kind of try to nudge in that direction). So in practice nobody really knew their place in the game or what the fuck they were supposed to be accomplishing. Plus, the locations and objects were also supposed to be tied to relationships, so we'd have an idea who the trophy was supposed to belong to in the first place. Second thing we boned is the dice. I directed you guys to pick your own dice after a scene ends, which is only supposed to happen if you Resolve. On top of that, you're supposed to pass the die to somebody else after you get it. The numbers on them don't really matter at this stage, only the color. (You keep the dice in Act 2, but clearly we never really got to Act 2.) The color of the dice matter because you add up your dice at endgame and it influences precisely how screwed over your character is when the credits roll. Third: I defy any of you to summarize the plot of the story we were making. I think part is this is down to the playset we used, the fantasy stuff kind of encouraged you guys to be even more dumb and slapsticky than normal. When Needs were addressed it was generally only for the duration of a single scene, whereas in principle Needs should be a thing you work up to over the course of at least the first Act if not the whole game. Nobody really seemed to be working toward anything long-term. Again, I could have done more to rein some of this in, I'm not blaming anybody but myself. It might be worth revisiting at some point, but definitely with a more... down-to-earth setting. The game-in-progress is boned. There's no narrative arc there at all. |
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I'll be playing TF2 on my friend's stream (it's a weekly event, but we tend to have a hard time getting many people (so if you want to help with that, the info should be on the info page of the stream)) when game night time rolls around, so someone just gimme a poke and i'll hop in. Is there any tutorial shazbot stuff i should do first, or should i just hop right in and learn things the hard way?
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Can you ski shitty and shoot while playing capture the flag? Yes?! Then you'll fit right in!
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Might jump in on that TF2 for a bit. It's a bit of a hard sell for Game Night proper, unfortunately (oh god MVM with randoms is the most frustrating shit in the world).
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I won't be able to make it tonight, my GF's mother is here and we will be entertaining her for the evening. Sorry guys!
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400MB patch HA HA HA HA
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I assume everything went down ok (if someone uneventfully, given the lack of posts). Sorry I never showed up, it was like 10:45 by the time I was patched (why the fuck can't it use Steam's patch system what the hell) and at that point it seemed kind of silly to jump in.
Anyways, we're back to dork games next week, which means The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (a competitive storytelling game), and then, time permitting, Everyone is John. Bring your aristocratic air and your broadest and most offensive European accent. |
Skills joined in pretty late but we all had a pretty SHAZ BOT time and by SHAZ BOT I mean good. We didn't annihilate like last time - the opposite team had some good players and some players with no scruples that would join our team and sabotage shit. So when we won it was a pretty big thing.
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Tonight'll be another night when i probably won't be around on time, but i'll be here eventually. Second last night of work!
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Once again, I won't be able to make it tonight. A combination of my GF's sister getting out of the hospital today and coming to live with us for a while and early work tomorrow are to blame.
Why does everything always happen on Tuesdays for me lately? :( |
Clickity. Still setting up so trickle in at your leisure.
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But John will never have a tail. :(
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If only John had tried to reason with the doctor instead of strangling him. He was a man of science! He would understand!
NEXT WEEK: ADVENTURE CASTLE VETS WILL STRUGGLE WITH THE HILARIOUSLY SIMPLE PUZZLES OF SPOOKY MANOR! FIASCO RETURNS AND MAYBE YOU IDIOTS ACTUALLY TRY TO FORM A PLOT THIS TIME! RYCHORD CAN'T JOIN US BECAUSE HE HAS TO VISIT THE E.R. DUE TO SUDDEN TESTICULAR TORSION! LURKER AND TALEC CONTINUE STARING AT US THROUGH THE BASEMENT WINDOW, SO VERY CURIOUS BUT AFRAID TO EVER INDULGE THREE HOURS OF NEW GHOSTBUSTERS MASHUPS (CRAZY MOTORBUSTERS? HELL YEAH SON) WRITHE IN MY CAGE OF TORMENT! 9 PM EST TUESDAYS |
Though my nutsack is so far still in acceptable shape, there are other forces at work that will prevent me from taking part for the next 2 weeks at least. Namely, I've been called in to work both days, and I can't afford to not go.
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Unfortunately I'll not be able to make it tonight either, as a consequence of my shitty internet being even-more-shitty-than-usual. I've put in the usual official complaints but you know how these things go. Maybe we can reschedule later in the week once I've got this sorted or, if you'd like, go ahead without me. I've set up Fiasco in the usual place (https://app.roll20.net/join/34000/yQhjDQ).
(Here's the rulebook, if you think that would help.) I've promoted both Skills and Acer to GM status for the time being, so shit will actually work. The jukebox has, as promised, been stocked with all manner of ghostbusting. (Yes, I know you're all highly unlikely to play tabletop games without me around to drag you through it kicking and screaming but the tools are there if you'd like them.) |
In my opinion it would be best to wait for the GM to be able to GM again. I do appreciate the offer but I believe I am too simple-minded to run Fiasco or an actual for serious D&D anything properly. It would all be jello castles and clouds made of marshmallow and then you have a DDR contest versus an eel and the die rolls would pretty much be meaningless to me because I give not a shit about numbers unless I feel absolutely creative for a 1 or 6 roll. Oh, you got a 3? I guess you hit him. Oh, maybe not? Wait, the guy got distracted by his thumb which he is sucking on like a toddler. Reroll that shit. Yeah, he's dead now. Good job. You murdered Infant Man the king of all babies. You get like a diaper full of gold nuggets and a ham sandwich.
I do like that your jukebox is prepared even if your Internet is not. I believe we should either all take a chillax night OR do something like SHAZ BOT. |
furious red team clicking noises
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Sat around totally ready to fuck up fiasco like a boss for 15 minutes, no one showed, despite announcing in chat. I imagine it would have ended in absolute fucking disaster so it's probably for the
Sworder treachery is a thing too! |
Well, the important thing is you tried and failed.
The lesson is: never try. |
And I ran around like a chicken with my head chopped off. I'd forgotten how much chaos first week of being back at school is (which is really too bad because i wanted to show off my slowly-improving-but-still-pretty-underwhelming Shazbot skills).
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Tomorrow: same plan as last week! Provided Verizon doesn't fuck with me again just because they can.
Next week: Apparently Gotham City Impostors has gone F2P and is also, reportedly, kind of shit, so that's an idea. |
Whatever the plan is, I can be in after all as the job has been canceled for tomorrow.
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No lie. I am kinda sleepy.
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Basically, you'll have to fight it off 'til the end of the evening. For the greater good.
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The usual place, for those of you who are awake.
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WE ARE THE CHOICIEST
YOUR FLAVORFUL AND SAVORY DELICIOUSNESS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR OWN |
only the choiciest of beefs will prevail
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warnings from ex-pimps lead to the destruction of the earth
planet garr is a lovely red topping |
Zoom out.
It's Mo0. Fade to black. |
Basically, it's all that amputee porn that made the difference.
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ok so
Next week is sort of the release date of borderjerks 2: border harder I am thinking like half of us are going to be on that yeah. Do we bail on next week? |
Yeah the release of an amazing co-op game is an excellent reason to skip game night
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Half of us are on xbox chief. There might even be some triple users in there.
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Embarrassingly poor platform decisions do tend to cripple the co-op aspect of things, yes.
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You know it's strange. You'd think that third parties wouldn't give a fuck about PS3 and 360 players playing each other or with each other if that were at all possible. Do they have to sign a contract against doing this or are the APIs and network shit really that different that they don't bother? I mean I GET PC versus consoles not being done since it's simply not fair to console players but PS3 and 360 should be about even in terms of controls.
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Oh that's right the only third party assholes in town that host their own servers for this shit anymore is activision right? My mistake - I can see how a console allowing another console would be bad juju.
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Acti has deds for some PC versions of COD, but console deds are few and far between no matter what. BF3 and Gears of War 3 are the most obvious of these right now.
Neither of which are Activision. Basically Garr is right. I'll likely double dip on borderjerks. With luck, people will have less hoops to jump through than last time. |
Basically I know nothing because I refuse to buy most Activision games for myself. I only figured the premium whatever accounts you pay Activision for would include playing on dedicated servers but what would I know. I'm just making assumptions.
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Yeah, I heard about that one and I kind of was implying that game when I said PC and console cross platform wasn't far because that game illustrates it. PC gamers wiped the floor with 360 players in that Shadowrun game.
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Basically it boiled down to the PC players being weighed down with all sorts of handicaps Harrison Bergeron style while the 360 players got aiming assistance and all the other padded sumo suit shit that's typical of FPS on consoles.
And then the PC players still took a giant shit on them. So the online community didn't last too long on that one, nope. |
So can I assume that no game night tonight because of Borderlands 2? Would be good to get this cleared up.
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Aw, geez, sorry, should have said something, but yeah nothing tonight both because of Borderlands and because of some other stuff. Y'know, stuff. :(
Sorry if anybody was sitting around drawing dicks and wondering what was going on. |
So what are we thinking about for Tuesday? I'm thinking about The Hidden: Source. Anybody object to that?
(Yes you need to own Half-Life 2 but seriously, if you don't own that by now, what the fuck.) |
I have an extra copy to hand out if someone doesn't have it.
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I have not Half-life two. Shame will be had by me apparently.
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I have to actually bail out on this one.
I have a CSC Certification test on Wednesday and there's that whole study like fuck thing I gotta do. Will be back with a vengence for the week after though. |
Ok apparently The Hidden actually needs the Source SDK 2006 (which is free and a hell of a lot smaller) rather than HL2. It's under Tools in your game library.
Assuming, as always, that anyone actually shows up. |
So I'm spectating a game right now. And I'm the cameras. Looks like a team of hidden monsters versus a squad of boom boom bang bang. Not quite sure if I get the appeal. Are the players the hidden monsters or are those done by AI?
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I will have to sit this one out, as a minor action because I don't have HL2, and my standard action is elaborated in my journal, and best summarized by this smiley. :skills:
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Okay whoever kills the hidden monster gets to be the hidden. Found that out when I accidentally killed one. Interesting game. So will we be joining a server or is one of us supposed to host one?
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Guess we'll just all jump on an empty public server, don't think a few pubbies will harm much of anything. I'll give this 15 or 20 minutes and we don't don't gather many GFFers then we'll just switch to Cards.
If you have the game installed you should be able to just jump in and join me from your friends list I think?? |
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The chiziest of queefs.
Almost certainly going to do this again next week, hopefully with a server of our own so we don't have to tolerate MLGPRO Hidden players stroking their epeens. No better way to end a session than "WHO WANTS TO DIE FIRST" (gets a faceful of Garr's buckshot) |
In other news, I just discovered that Garr is a pretty impressive FPS player. Hats off to you buddy!
THE_SLIMIEST_OF_QUEEFS MYLES WHERE ARE YOU WE NEED TO STACK UP |
GET ON TOP OF ME
EVERYBODY GET ON TOP OF ME WATCH ME I'LL WATCH YOU |
THIS IS A NO KILL SERVER
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Yeah, this is an RP server, we're on a quest to find the golden box right now, okay thanks
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MORE THE HIDDEN
It's a game all about being a huge dick to people who are scared of you so we were pretty much all agreed that we weren't done with it until you had a go at it. Plus I have the most obnoxiously gimmicky plan. Acer is the server stuff fairly straightforward, have you had any time to dick around with that? PS the video I was telling you guys about last week
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Holy shit the Joker one with surprise guest Mickey Mouse was amazing as well.
But naw I haven't really looked into setting up a server. If it's the same group as last time I guess that would be like maybe 5 people max which isn't a bad group. Plus if we left it open then I guess it might work well enough. |
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Pleasant dreams, Skills~
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GOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING WISCONSIN! W617, THE TRASH GARAGE, ALL THE SHARPEST CUTS FROM THE 70'S 80'S 90'S AND TODAY ALL COMIN' STRAIGHT TO YOU FROM THIS RUSTY DUMPSTER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DOWNTOWN SLUMS. I'M DJ IRIS AND THIS NEXT TRACK HOLDS A LOT OF MEMORIES.
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: LET'S TAKE SOME CALLS! Additional Spam: Seriously though once I figured out crouchjumping playing the Hidden went from sort of frustrating to amazing. Anybody wanna suggest something for next week? This is obviously a game we can keep exploiting for a while but 3 weeks in a row seems sort of iffy. Any old idea. Throw it out there. |
Remember that time some of us bought Sanctum and then never played it? Might be an option. Hard to say if i'll be able to make it, though, as soon i will probably have to work Tuesday nights :(
I was in the process of downloading and installing the Hidden, but it was taking too long, so i hopped into a minecraft speed build contest my friend was running instead. We were handed the theme "bridges" and given 25 minutes and that was it. [EDIT] holy cow those pictures were bigger than i thought sorry anyone with slow internet This is the bridge that won: Spoiler:
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I came in a solid second, though, and i'm happy with how it turned out. Best part was how confused everyone else was until they figured it out. |
well you can count on me not being around until a fair bit later, because i just got the word that i'll be starting working tuesday nights as of next week. I might show up late, but the possibility of me playing the full time is pretty much gone (although let be honest, i haven't been very good about remembering to show up for the last month)
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Sorry, I really should have said something. I'm still working crazy hours on Tuesday, and this may be indefinite :(
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Well, no other suggestions are coming forward and I haven't really had time to prepare anything Roll20-wise so Sanctum it is. Unfortunately that caps out at 4 players sooooo apologies to the irregulars :(
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I got that installed already so no fashionably late installs here. Oh this one should be excellent. Although to be honest The Hidden was some of the best vidya we've done yet so it'll be hard to top that. |
I got a call to go in for work tomorrow at 6PM, but (as usual) I haven't gotten confirmation yet. I already have Sanctum installed, so depending on how long the job takes (if I'm even working), it's not impossible that I can get in on the tail end of the thing.
That is, if you guys don't already have a full party by then. |
I'm not working tonight, so I'm in!
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Next week: Terraria! I know plenty of you motherfuckers have this.
Also even though Sanctum was originally my idea it was Hawkeye who suggested it for this week so I'm gonna blame him for all our frustrations. PS there's a (provisional) schedule for future weeks in the OP now but I keep making the mistake of asking you people for your opinions so who knows :shrug: |
THERE IS NO GETTING PAST WAVE 8
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I'll take being blamed for frustrations. It's sort of like participating. Except instead of playing games i'm wrapping cables and pushing squeaky sound carts around.
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Just a heads up that I won't be coming in tonight. I've been fighting a cold for the last few days and I really need to rest up good as I feel pretty shitty right now.
Sorry for the inconvenience guys. |
I'm debating whether or not I'll be coming tonight as well. I have some work that I might want to catch up on and tonight could be good for that. Not sure though. How is everyone else feeling?
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Well I figured Terraria might draw in a few more folks but nobody's said boo and Terraria with 2 people seems a little ehhhh.
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Well Ry we'll probably try Terraria again next week since Acer's amazing house of cards kept falling over and eventually we just bailed for some incompetentastic TF2 action.
If Terraria still explodes everything when we try again next week, more Hidden! Mann vs Machine was fun but I don't think anybody else plays often enough to justify the cost of Mann Up tickets and without the promise of loots it gets a bit grindy. But it's there as a fallback I guess since Acer can pull down 10GB in about 90 seconds. |
I still kept you ducking in and out of that water for like three minutes before you realized my weapons could not harm you :(
You don't lose a ticket until you win a mission. If you do all six missions from a given campaign you win a fancy-ass silver or diamond gun. So you're out six bucks for the tickets and the weapon might not even be for a class you play. There's also a tiny chance for premium robot hats I guess. Not really worth the cash unless you're a tremendous hat baron with 200 cosmetics and 11 dupe accounts and like six different trading sites bookmarked like me so you can flip that shit for a profit. |
Since my memory is utter shit, what's this week's shenanigans again?
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Just dropping in to say that I have company and as such am not sure that I will be able to join in tomorrow, as my desktop is in the guest room and they usually go to bed much earlier than our session ends. I'm downloading TF2 on my laptop right now, however, and will see about getting The Hidden. That doesn't look too promising though, as even though I can get the Source SDK 2006, I can't see the mod being compatible with OSX.
As for Terraria, I can run the legit version with a game wrapper but the multiplayer is supposedly wonky at best. I'll try and see if there is a version of the wrapper that makes it more reliable. In any case, do what you will. I'll try and be present and ready for whatever you guys choose and if it so happens that it doesn't work on my end I'll just join the stream and heckle you from a distance for a change. |
Guess I'll just have to boobytrap your castle some more. These jokers convinced me to do it while I waited for TF2 to download and install last time.
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I just went in there to work on the battlements and I got a face full of gravel. :tubular:
Now I'm all paranoid to keep going. :tpg: Additional Spam: Aaaaaand Team Fortress 2 hangs at Steam validation. After spending the evening doing everything short of reinstalling it (10GB download again no thank you) Imma say fuck it. Enjoy your silly hats. Spam, egg, spam, and spam: Okay, so the company that is over are gone until late enough in the evening that in the end I will plausibly be able to play tonight, at least for the first part of the evening. I've bought and installed Terraria and am downloading TF2 on my other machine. Since it's in Windows I hopefully won't get the same problem I got yesterday on my laptop with the verification. |
I liked how on Rychord's server we could outdig the water.
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CHATEAU DE PANG DEFIES YOUR AQUATIC PREDATIONS. ALL YOUR PRECIOUS WATER IS SEALED AWAY INSIDE THIS WATER TOWER POSSESSING NO PARTICULARLY SUGGESTIVE SHAPE.
Next week, Fiasco: Camp Death! And, depending on turnout, Action Castle: Spooky Mansion. |
CHATEAU DU GIANT HUGE COCK FILLED WITH MANY BUCKETS OF WATER
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FIVE SUBTERRANEAN LAKES: EMPTIED. DOZENS OF FISH AND MOLLUSKS: HOMELESS. GLORY: MINE.
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WE MUST GATHER OUR PARTY BEFORE VENTURING FORTH
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I dunno about you, but I'd count it as a success if we managed to not only burn a house down, but also make love to a bowl of mac and cheese in an ass laboratory.
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Now that's what I call kraft dinner!
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I'm starting to get worried about the ratio of games that end in a normal fashion to the number of games that end in life or universe ending events.
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Theoretically we could have kept going, but goddamn once the assbot was introduced I really could not keep my composure for more than a minute
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I like how it only took four turns to break you. Kill a player and stuff him in a freezer? Okay. Lock the murderer in the freezer for revenge? Sure. Attempt to knock out that guy with a raging boner? No problem. Metallic spider anal servant bot springs forth from the corpse in the freezer? Nope! Laughing in tears for eternity.
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I fucking second this forever and ever.
Let's decide on how we're gonna run it. I'm fine with Zandronum, which I've never used before. Does anyone else have a preference? |
Yeah, let's rip and tear some guts. Garr's the dude who knows what's up here so let's just go with Zandronum so he has an easier time telling us what we're fucking up.
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Well, I've got it running on my laptop after some tinkering. I haven't had a chance to try the online play so it's anybody's guess if that will work. (because Mac, you know)
I downloaded the original doom wad from Softpedia since it was available, will that suffice for our purposes? |
>Download Final Doom just to have it ready
>Download Zandronum just to have it ready >Install Zandronum just to have it ready >Start it up "just to make sure it works okay" >Play entirety of Knee-Deep In The Dead This game |
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It appears that my meeting tonight is cancelled, so I can participate again. If I am following this correctly, I need the following:
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WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE DOOM WITHIN ARM'S REACH AT ALL TIMES
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Brown demons in the red are hard times.
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pinky is my best friend :)
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It's like you read the thing directly behind that spot on my head that the demons expose with their round red things.
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sometimes pinky will tear at me with his gaping jaws and i will not see him because he is invisible and then i will see him and i will say hi :)
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If that video is meant to illustrate what Garr was doing last night, then yeah, masterful execution of all kinds of beasties was what was going on.
For the rest of us, there is a major lack of profanity, KICKS, JUMP KICKS, AWKWARDLY EXECUTED JUMP KICKS, wasting of bullets, deaths at the hands of the weakest of creatures, confusion as to where we are/are going, infighting, and JURN CLURN VURN DURM JURMP KURCKS. |
Shit, I missed it. Oh well.
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Just a heads up, I'm almost certainly not going to be able to Rip and Tear tomorrow since I have to get up at a ridiculous hour on Wednesday morning. Jumpkick forever in my memory~
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Also if we're suggesting F2P hilarity I also suggest MechWarrior Online.
Be aware that game has like a zillion patches to download though if you try to catch up so start a day early. |
Tonight: Skills and barrels of green goo are not things you want to see in direct succession.
Especially if your name is Acer. |
Speaking for myself I can say that it doesn't bother me in the least and I'm quite frankly rather impressed at how much of the details you know about the game.
It's all in good fun anyway, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. |
Garr, I didn't find that at all. I think it was all the funnier when we then found the yellow key. It's all good. You don't come off as an asshole about doom. Keep being awesome.
Also lol I got waaaay too butt frustrated about stupid things last night - they were either skills related or me being bad at videogames related. I had a lot of fun and I'd totally be down for it again next week. |
Not in the least, don't worry about it. I ask you questions about it because it's some impressive shit.
Also we really need to see if there's a green barrel spawning mod or command line option. ALL OF THE ACER DEATHS |
Yeah, there really should be a big button somewhere that reads "JUMP KICKING BARRELS ARENA DEATHMATCH MODE".
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I don't have a problem with anybody sperging out about a game they love, I certainly did my share of it when we tried some TF2.
I'm fine for more Doom next week. No idea what TNT is so I have to download some extra shit let me know. |
Speaking of barrel trolling we need to do a night or two of Worms Armageddon sometime. Unfortunately it's in that inconvenient grey area where the developers straight-up refuse to sell it on Steam so I don't know who else would jump through the hoops for that.
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Is it Worms Armageddon or Worms World Party that has the Concrete Donkey?
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Indie game developers will never stop impressing me. Thanks for demoing the most physically realistic drowning-in-your-blood simulator to date. :)
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On one hand it would be kind of cool to round out NovemBFG, but on the other hand, yeah, I've spent a little too much time getting locked in rooms I never had the key to get inside in the first place.
There was some talk of giving Orient Express another spin; I'm certainly down and it would be relatively easy for me to set up. |
Free to play madness?
Fucking not sure if any of you played the Planetside 2 beta, but I sure didn't! WE CAN ALL LEARN IT TOGETHER. It's on steam. It's also 10 gigs, so Pang you better start downloading tonight or else we won't see you until April. Also Mechwarrior Online! MWO: Index Technical robot laser bullshit! Also free to play! Has several patches! Only like 2 or 3 gigs total though. Open beta! Expect to get eaten alive. Awesome fun though. Also there's SHAZBOT we could always play again. I fucking LOVE Shazbot. Also Star Trek Online. PHASERS. Haven't played that since Closed Beta with Garr like a zillion years ago. NO IDEA IF THIS SUCKS OR WHAT. There's also Frozen Synapse, which is a strategery gaem. It's NOT free, but it is cheap on Steam until the 27th. 12 bucks gets TWO copies, and we could play each game against each person SIMULTANEOUSLY, since there's a play by email feature and we could all have games going on against each other person AT THE SAME TIME it would be like speed chess but with assault rifles and exploded tron bits. |
Oh yeah. Not useful for the next two nights, but after that.
This goes open beta on the 12th. Fucking Hawken. We're getting at least one night of this in. F2P as well. |
Planetside sounds good. Already set up the train stuff but that can wait for a rainy day, so to speak.
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Planetside is like a billion gigs, you got that shit ready to rock, Pang?
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Actually we have to settle on a faction and a server.
Connery is the biggest west US server and I think Helios is the smallest. On the east side Mattherson is definitely the biggest and I assume Jaeger is the smallest since it was the most recent to open. |
Three hours spent fighting a war that, as it happens, had been won before we got there.
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i have that game. and no class on tuesday! this may be awesome.
though i've found that MWO requires A LOT of grinding before you get do do anything interesting like customize mechs. i was going to wait until i could get a decent mech, but eventually i just ran out of patience and bought a crappy little Commando that i'm no good with whatsoever. |
That or it needs a lending system where I can start a group and let you use the platforms I've already purchased and are just sitting in the bay.
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Gonna work my way up to SOMETHING in the next week even if it's a shithouse Jenner. Took me forever just to adjust to the whole "you're not necessarily walking the same direction you're facing" thing. Fuckin' with all my FPS instincts. PLUS MY MISSILES GO IN ASS-RANDOM DIRECTIONS SO THAT'S COOL
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You can purchase mechs and equpment with C-bills. Might take a while to earn a useful amount though. Using the trial mechs you can earn C-bills without repair costs, but you can't customize them.
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After 10 or so matches I have almost half the amount needed to buy the shittiest possible mech, at which point I will run around in circles like a mechanical asshole racking up target-spotter credits and never shooting anybody
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Be aware that Jenners are most definitely not shithouse.
For that matter without knowing what you're actually doing, the best of the three lights probably IS the jenner. The armoured one. The one with the 6 energy hardpoints, is probably your best bet for a starter light. Alternatively save up for a hunchback, which is a very friendly and easy to learn platform. Commandos are not terrible either. Try to stay away from Ravens and Cicadas until you know what you're doing or you'll feel like you wasted some time/effort/CBills. |
TIME TO CLIMB IN OUR BIG ROBOTS AND FLAIL AROUND AND HAVE SPERGS NASALLY INFORM US THAT THEY AREN'T TECHNICALLY ROBOTS
PS: there's a new patch, so go ahead and grab that while we wait for stragglers |
Iliev feel very brave, he leave the house, it sunny outside, his friends are with. He go to enemy base, he feel very nice, nobody home. But it trick, all the enemy hide stealthy behind big building, surprise Iliev very much. Sad day.
Iliev go home very depress and look for vodka bottle, but he remember doctor takes the vodka bottle away from Iliev. Sad day. Additional Spam: So, next week? I'm down for more Planetside, or Skills has also suggested Star Trek Online, but I'm going to need a status check on that RE: dance emotes |
Dem Caterflax came up over dem mountains, I swear they tried to took hour base, we put a stop to that, tell you hwut, with hour hurnchburks and chicardas. Jennifer was there too, she helped us all proper like.
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Even though I sat a few hour for group size issues I had a fucking blast. Not sure what everyone else thinks of this game though.
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I for one really liked this game. The only down side is obviously the group size issue, but beyond that it was really fun to play, and not as impossible to understand as I first thought it might be by looking at the five million key bindings.
I'd be up for playing it again anytime, now that I've got my commando :cool:. |
As fun as it was to fight alongside Hawkeye and Rychord for most of the night it kind of sucked that we had to split the group up due to shitty multiplayer design. Also it was kind of lame how ineffective anything I ever did was due to using trial mechs and barely knowing what I was doing. Besides listening to you guys and watching a few interesting things happen during the game it was a rather meh night for me. I'll give the game another go if that's what you all want but I don't think I'll be ever playing MWO on my own.
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The multiplayer party system is done like that for a very good reason. MWO is a competitive game and it's split like that to prevent groups of 8 from stomping PUGs and pubbies.
It's not ideal, but trust me. It's better than it was in closed beta. I still have a fucking blast with you guys, and I only sat out a few rounds to make sure everyone fit. This was no biggy for me. I am sorry we didn't get to rock more though Acer. :( Since Hawken is the week AFTER next, what is next week? |
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Trek is probably a massive pain in the ass to get re-set up, so let's break from vidya for a bit and Murder Trains?
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I personally loved MWO, but that's partly because i hadn't played it with friends before last night. My Cicada just won't get to be as awesome as i want it to be for a long while yet, so i was really kind of unhelpful, but it was still fun to blast things with you guys. I'd certainly use it as a "welp, only a few of us left who want to do things tonight, now what?" kind of game.
as for next week, i'd be up for Planetside, since i've been playing a fair bit of that lately. Game can be pretty frustrating at times when your faction is short-staffed and you're fighting losing battles all the time, but other than that it's great fun. We should figure out which faction we're all joining on which server, so that we have one less thing to figure out. Or murder trains, whatever they are. |
Oh shit I forgot a lot of you weren't really regulars last time we played Orient Express. Let me explain.
It's sort of like Clue, but on a train, and you actually have to gather information and interrogate witnesses and use deductive logic. And you have to solve the murder before the train reaches its destination and all the suspects escape into Bulgaria. The players themselves are detectives and not suspects but there's still a competitive aspect and you can use tokens to threaten witnesses into not talking to the other detectives, get into brawls with the other detectives and steal information from them, throw them into closets, all that. The absurdity comes in when the victim was killed by a bomb and it turns out the train is carrying at least 4 explosives experts with possible motive. |
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By the time 12 people are implemented they will likely have the community warfare system in place, or at least the start of it, so this stop gap measure that was released to prevent one sided games will be scrapped.
It's a similar thing to how there are tiers in SC and the like. It's a community balancing thing. |
Oh that's fine then, actual skill-level balancing is a huge improvement on MORE THAN 4 OF YOU? GET OUT OF HERE CLANSTACKERS
Of course Skills will throw off our average massively and we'll get stomped anyway BUT STILL |
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Next time on the Orient Express: giving every single detective a different case to solve, since fuck it I'm apparently doing that anyway
Next week: http://www.playhawken.com/ |
What's that? :ms:
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WE'RE IN FRANCE? FRENCH ACCENTS
WE'RE IN GERMANY? GERMAN ACCENTS WE'RE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA? ... ... ... FRENCH ACCENTS |
You forgot the most obvious -
Austria: Schwarzenegger accent YAHUR |
Honestly it all devolved into Pan-European garbledeharble after a bit.
Except for Acer, who was only a few innuendos away from becoming The World's Campiest Living Being. |
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We may have a problem.
Apparently Hawken does not actually have a group function at this time. I have no idea if it will be patched in by Tuesday or not. |
Considering I've sat in multiple 15+ minute matchmaking queues only to not find a game yet I won't be exactly heartbroken if we have to change plans
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Wow, really? What game modes were you trying to connect to? Team Deathmatch always seems to have players, as I have never had to wait more than a few seconds.
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Missile Control (similar to UT2K4's Onslaught mode) should be a blast with the group but you'll all be scattered and shit since there's no party function available.
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If you wanna rotate it out, that's cool too.
We can always jump back in later, since it's ballin' as fuck Not had the issues Pang has though, regarding MM |
Pang, I don't know if you're familiar with Runebound, but I bought some card decks since my brother bought the base game. He told me the game extension card decks were going out of print, and we want to play over Christmas break.
I've not actually played it yet but from what he described, it's a pretty neat class/party-based RP game that might be cool to try at some point. Also, there is room for shenanigans between players, so that would be neat as well. |
Well, November was pretty much Garr Month and December has been pretty Skillscentric so if you wanna call shots for January that's fine by me. Looking at Runebound I don't know how well it'll work for Roll20 (assuming that's what you're suggesting) but I'll see what I can dig up.
As far as Hawken matchmaking goes, I tried it again tonight and found a match within 5 seconds, so :shrug: After playing a few matches, I'm liking this a lot better than Mechwarrior. Actual ingame play-skill seems to matter more than sperging over your precise coolant efficiency or collective team strategy. It's actually possible to disengage from a fight without getting 1000 missiles rammed up your ass. And you can repair. Shooting people with bullets is worthwhile! Jumpjets accomplish something other than falling down and breaking your legs! So much good. |
I've found Runebound in gamebox format for the ZunTsu platform, though I've not yet tried that interface, so it's anybody's guess how user friendly it is. The manual is just ten pages, which shouldn't be too much of a fuss to grasp.
Also, the ztb file is basically a zip archive so renaming it allows for viewing of the image contents, in case we want to transfer to another interface (I'm willing to do this if told what needs to be done). I've not found any of the variants and extensions yet, but I'm sure the base game could be nice to play for a first go round. That is if there is any interest, of course. |
I down for whatever. I installed Hawken and updated it but I've yet to play it. So yeah... it's up to you guys what we do tonight.
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Are we still doing Hawken even if we can't actually all be in a game together reliably?
I'm asking because I haven't downloaded it yet and won't go through the trouble if we're doing something else. |
Mechwarrior in separate games wasn't perfect but it wasn't a miserable experience, and nobody has proposed a Hawken alternative and it's getting sort of last-minute, so I assume we're doing Hawken and I'd go ahead and grab it if I were you.
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If Rychord hasn't downloaded it yet, there's always that gif apples to apples game, too.
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Nah, I'm downloading it right now, and apparently it'll only take 45 minutes. I was just checking to confirm if it needed to be done or not.
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FOR THE GLORY OF PEANUTBUTTERIA
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A AM NOT A KNIGHT OF THE PEANUT BUTTER CUP ROUND TABLE
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PROBATION! PROBATION! SEVEN YEARS PROBATION, NO APPEAL
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WE SHOULDE SETTLE THEES IN A BOUT OF STARCRAFT, WHERE A WEEL BACON YOU, SEELLY PEEGMAN
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That interface looks like a strategy gamer's paradise, to be honest. There are a ton of games themselves available on the site itself, for christsakes. We're covered for a few years there if we want to.
I just hope the interface isn't full of "why can't I see the yellow button"s. |
looks awesome, i'll have to download it sometime when i'm not running around doing stuff. Also - i love Formula D(e) - which they have. car racing! and dice! what more could you want?
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we have a forum?
ATTN: Chivalry is on sale for the next 24-ish hours on Steam for 50% off (for a total of $12.50). It's a first person medieval combat game that has all sorts of potential for hilarious shenanigans. This gives a pretty good idea of what to expect:
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Played a couple rounds of Hawken tonight with no crashes so maybe the Christmas patch fixed their shit. Hopefully we can get back on that sooner rather than later. PS Garr I was going to get you Hotline Miami in exchange for your serious gift of seriousness but I saw that you already have it but only played it for like five minutes. Shit seems like it should definitely be up your ally so give it another try, I implore you. |
Best first time participating ever.
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Rychord just gave me a copy of Witcher 2 in exchange for a copy of DOTA2 that I don't even remember why I had it and that I certainly didn't actually pay for, so, you know, he's excellent.
Why do game night folks keep giving me singleplayer games you are tearing me apart |
Holy crap, I really need to learn how to stop streaming. At least I got story time with Deni. That was fun. But yeah I need to not do this until 5 AM. It is dumb.
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I can't get over how awesome jump kicks were with friendly fire.
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About Runebound, I had a chance to play 3 or 4 games over the holidays (some with variants), and it is entirely possible for it to work within one game night session.
The setup/rules explanation is really not too big of a deal, just getting a grasp on combat, which is simple enough yet not so much so that the results are telegraphed, and learning about attributes, challenge, and shopping, basically. Think Hero Quest in terms of simplicity, with maybe a slight bit of complexity added the first go round. The game is also pretty much idiot proof, except for a few situations which we may have to house rule. My brother's GF and another one of my brothers, both without any real RPG experience were both able to join in just fine and follow the action. We just need to make sure we adjust experience requirements for leveling so that the game doesn't take too long to get interesting. As an example, the first game we played (4 players) took about 5 hours with lots of breaks for drinks and such. On the other hand, the last game we played (again 4 players) lasted 8 hours, and we didn't even complete the end phase. This is precisely because we didn't adjust leveling properly owing to the two rather complex variants we added, which multiplied the difficulty and hence made it very difficult to survive even mid level challenges. Since we are playing the base game, with proper leveling it shouldn't last more than 3 or 4 hours though, and I'll make sure we set the leveling to match up with the time frame and the number of players. |
Just to remind everybody after the long break, we're back in business tonight at the usual time. I can't think of a better way to start a new year of Game Night than to clumsily bumble through a game we don't understand via an application we've never used before.
(Is there any chance to squeeze the game down to 3 hours? Cuz, y'know.) |
Even though the game rules say 2 to 4 hours with suggested experience curve, I say we knock it down, as I can tell from experience that it doesn't apply when everyone is new.
Experience really is the key factor in determining length, so I say we settle for levels starting at 1 XP for the first few (the exact number of levels depending on how many people show up), 2 XP for the next few (ditto), and then 3 XP thereafter. That should make it largely possible to have a winner within 3 hours. Additional Spam: We can also add runes to the board to make it go even faster, especially if 4 or more of us show up. |
Since i'm back at school and working tonight, i might show up late, assuming i make it back in time for showing up to be worth it. Took a poke around ZunTzu though, and it looks amazing. once you get used to the controls, it seems like it could be really smooth and a solid game night platform for whatever we feel like doing.
Disappointed by the fact that the Formula De link didn't work to the point that i actually signed up for the forums there and asked if anyone would fix it. Which i never do. So yeah. Excited. :eagletear: |
Yeah the file curating on their site is terrible and totally dependent on users uploading shit to random places and passing the links on. So if anyone sees a game they'd like to try sometime and the link still works, I'd advise grabbing it now because it might not be available tomorrow.
I understand why they don't want to be directly responsible for hosting a full copy of, say, Chaos In The Old World, but damn, the number of dead links on the file page is disgusting. |
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You guys have a grand time. I won't be making it tonight.
Whatever you guys end up playing please make an NPC a garden gnome and tell me the results. <3~ |
wait what are we playing
I thought we were playing chivalry shit what do I have to download |
turns out i don't have work this evening, so i'll be back in a bit after taking a look at a friend's computer
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I am so handswim.
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I'm so hungry :(
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Jokes, you know? I am good at them.
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Ok so um for the benefit of.... well Skills, I guess, let me just reiterate that we're going to try to finish this business next week. Hopefully now that we (mostly) know what the fuck we're doing we can play a little more aggressively.
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I saved the gamestate as I saw it the next morning before turning the thing off. Hope that's ok.
Also I'll host again, but what are we doing w/r/t players. I can sit out if Acer wants my guy (and promises to kill Rychord) |
Well, nobody was really close to winning, so I figured we could just give Acer his own dude and then give him whatever the average number of gained levels is.
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I will be working tonight, so i may late, depending on how things go. If i end up not showing up, you guys can always continue without me.
Also, Skills, how did you know i got Persona 4 for Christmas? |
Might be a little late myself tonight (and, okay, every Tuesday night until May) but it seems we hardly ever get started before 9:30 these days anyway so I doubt it'll hurt anything.
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FUCK IT LET'S JUST PVP
Next week: Chivalry! Join us for dudekicking and decapitations. |
Winner: Hungry Dad and his Dragon King Overlord
Also I can't believe we've been doing this shit for a year. |
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Additional Spam: Acer I was serious about that Shadowgate LP put your horrible talents to good use |
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I haven't tried Shadowgate 64 but I can't imagine it matches the original's deathless prose.
(There's also a pretty faithful gameboy port if you'd like to torture everyone's ears even more.) |
Possibly good news:
It is possible that I will have access to a comp that will be able to run Chivalry for this week. Long story short, my GF's sister has a less than year old comp which she has no clue as to the specs, but I'm confident with the price she paid for it that it will be able to run the game, at the very least on minimum settings. In other words: sorry guys, you're not quite rid of me just yet. |
Oh hey, so idea for later as well.
ShootMania Storm - The new online FPS by NADEO It's 15 dollars. Comes out on Wendesday, it's basically a goofy, silly, floaty UT clone with interesting mechanics and not terribly high system reqs. If you can do chivalry you can do this. Maybe not right away but I think it's ridiculous and it should be good. |
General consensus is MORE CHIVALRY next week. Hopefully we can find a server that actually runs some of the objective-based maps.
Seriously going to set up Joy2Key to automatically press X,9 for me over and over forever |
Fuck objectives.
FFA only all day every day. Sneaking up behind Taco and taking his head clean off and then immediately getting speared by Garr is the best. |
I like coming out of nowhere for the free for all matches. Basically having your green names on my screen instantly becomes my route and I either dodge or maim what I can en route to murder you or whoever you're fighting with with betrayal soon following. Well that's my plan anyway. Not that it gets to happen most of the time but I make an honest effort and that counts for something.
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The ideal server would be one where the game mode changes for every match. I can't imagine the guys who put this game together haven't played their fair share of Multiplayer FPS. At least, the game modes that are included are probably all very enjoyable, as no match last night was anywhere near lame.
Additional Spam: It also never gets old when the game mode changes frequently. Much as I loved the FFA, 5 hours of it might get a bit stall in a group context. |
We failed to defend so many things tonight.
And just as it seemed we might finally save some form or other of royal blood...: NOPE.doit.ARCHERSDOITUPTHESNOUT.nopeagain.chiv fack |
I was right by the king when he got skewered too. I am useless. :(
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holy shit yes
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sooo... a link or something for those of us who don't have the game? (i may or may not be able to show up at game night, seeing as i have a test the next morning, but i'd still be interested to try this ridiculous looking game with friends if nothing else)
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Here's the download page.
Haven't installed it yet but it looks to me like a HL2 Deathmatch mod so if you don't have that shit installed on Steam yet, get to it. |
Is it game night? Pang, Acer, Skills, Taco, Hawk????
Garr and I got this going for now but we would still enjoy the company! |
God this game is a riot.
Pang and a few others missed out, I'm down for this for a third week in a row, unless you want to try that retarded looking bush game. |
Skills, I have the level 3 hamma now too. It's pretty boss. Plus I got fairly decent at the level 2 as well. I need to get a new mouse though. This one kept dying on me in the middle of my fights. It was awful. I'm surprised I did as well as I did tonight with it.
I heard Pang's motherboard blew up on him. I hope he's able to fix things by next week. I swear this has to be at least the second or third time this has happened to the poor guy. :( |
Yeah, I could definitely go for some more of this too! I was just getting the hang of that archery business. The short bow is a pretty big improvement on the long bow in terms of point blankiness, I can say that much.
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Well shit. I don't know if one more week will be enough now.
Look at this update info! Medieval boner mode engaged! Additional Spam: Aaaaaand I can't download the update. Reinstalling steam, hopefully that works. :( |
Man I don't care how shitty the quarterstaff is I'm maining that business
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CORRECTION: QUARTERSTAFF IS TERRIBLE, I SPIT ON IT
Additional Spam: NEXT WEEK: That Suicide Survival business, I suppose? Worth a shot. Then, when it turns out to be terrible, more HUUUUUUUUARRRRGGGHBLBLBLBLBLBLSPLAT |
I never thought someone could actually make the claim that fire is their main weapon in that game.
But hey, Pang seems to have it down to a (burning) Tee. |
I think I'm actually getting decent with the swords now (though the Falchion seems to be awful), precious fire is just there to provide a distraction for Ser Knife of Huntington, Esq.
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Well, that triple flame kill was nothing if not glorious.
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ITT: Pang misses yet another good impromptu game night Chivalring.
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you got through the javelins damn fast from what I can tell. It seemed to take forever for the crossbows though.
I'm still working on bows, can't seem to do that shit properly at all. :/ I'm loving the poleaxe, in any case! |
Indeed, focusing on one at a time really makes you get to the root of a weapon's strong and weak points. I actually know most weapons well enough now to tell when my alternate will be more useful, and that tends to bring your survival rate up quite a bit.
We all know I'll still run in like a maniac nine times out of ten and get properly chopped down, but you know, just saying. |
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Ah, that would be a good idea. Sorry about that. :(
I tend to forget that not everybody only has 6 Steam friends on their list like I do, making it harder to notice things like that. :s Next time it will be done! |
well someone lemme know when you guys decide to play something other than Chivalry, so i can know when to start showing up again.
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Well.
That'll be never |
Hey, we're planning to play Not-Chivalry on a provisional basis next week, who knows? We may dig ourselves out of this Mysterious Chivalry Hole by April.
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If we ever want a change of pace, what about Descent?
Particularily, Descent 3? Descent 3 + Expansion for download $9.99 - GOG.com |
Hey guys if you haven't installed Suicide Survival go ahead and do that ok? Ok cool
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Alright, I have Suicide Survival installed. You chumps ready to get bushed?
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The thread title says it all. We should apply now to JOIN CLAN FIST.
Also there is an 'e' missing in the title. |
Shame about suicide bush kinda sucking, but glorious Chivalry saves all, again.
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Saves all except its own busted objective maps anyway.
WATCH THIS SPACE for next week's return to Glorious Boardgamery as I try to hunt down something that isn't fuck-hell retarded. DAMN IT EUROPE NOT EVERY GAME NEEDS TO BE ABOUT CURRYING FAVOUR |
I like how he said we were pubes when I had taken out two people in a 3v1 fight before standing off against Rychord. Yeah, I was hesitant because I didn't want to push my luck and fuck up for the team. And I delivered. Shame I don't have a recording of that as it was pretty awesome. Rychord put up a good fight though.
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If by "put up a good fight" you mean jerked around like a turkey, then yeah, I put up the GREATEST fight. :p
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You probably could have had me if you'd only come at me faster. Since you allowed me to back off I was able to heal up from all my injuries I had just gotten.
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I wasn't aware of the damage, just that you only needed two hits tops to chop me down. Still, man-at-arms is probably my favorite class.
That fast step should be allowed for every class, just maybe with less distance traveled and speed for the heavier classes, and less distance or speed for the archer to keep the MAA's advantage at least a little bit with it. There's nothing more rewarding than sidestepping a spear or maul and then slicing up the foo' who tried to get you! |
CHIVALROUS BOARDGAME ACQUIRED
Rules: Rules and FAQ - Shadows over Camelot | Days of Wonder Zuntzu box: Shadows over Camelot.ztb |
oh god this crashhappy shockwave shit again
I look forward to it. |
I fully expect to be there this week (unless my family has other plans for me, which is a distinct possibility), so this should be awesome. Looking forward to babysitting the board while Pang and Skills get into massive scroll wars.
Also, i highly suspect that we will have at least two, possibly three traitors in our midst, despite the fact that no one will actually be a Traitor in the game. Call it a hunch. |
If everyone is traitor...ing (Traitoring? Traitorizing?), are they really a traitor? Or is it the OTHER person who's being a traitor?
ALSO Shazbot got a huge content drop, 6 new maps, a new weapon, a remake and some changes to some systems, and so on. If anyone wants to revisit that at some point, that'd be cool too. There's also a "Game of the Year" edition, which lets you buy all game altering content for 30 bucks. So that's about 100 guns, all 9 classes, and about 20 perks, by my reckoning. If anyone's interested in that. |
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I don't think we're ever "done" with Chivalry any more than we're ever done with, say, Hidden. There are always more layers of hilarious stupid shit to explore.
PS my monitor died and I'm reduced to this clanky old CRT while I wait for shipping and jesus the tag cloud takes up half my screen Additional Spam: OH MY GOD NEVER GOING BACK TO NORMAL GRAVITY SERVERS EVER Firebombing motherfuckers from the SKY |
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
As the black plague rises to sweep over Garrthur's fallen kingdom, next week is PANDEMIC (also Zuntzu) Box: Pandemic.ztb Rules: http://www.zmangames.com/boardgames/...emic_Rules.pdf (PS Hawkeye you're the worst) Additional Spam: THEN King Garrthur came out of his tower, and had under his gown a jesseraunt of pretty good armor I guess, and there went with him the brown dude, and Sir Tristan of Lyonesse, and Sir Kaylord, and Sir Peeks-At-Cards: these were the men of most pulchritude that were with him. And when they were met there was no meekness, but pulchritude on both sides; but always King Garrthur answered them, and said he would make a full house, but he did not. Wherefore they departed with wrath, and King Garrthur bade keep them well, and they bade the king keep him well. |
This is such a weird game. Lots of cool concepts with a whole lot of misunderstandings and weird executions.
Lexi found a cheat sheet here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28706940/SOCrules.pdf And BGG has some forum topics that help explain where we went wrong: Shadows over Camelot | Board Game | BoardGameGeek I didn't realize Merlin straight across traded for catapults. I also think we got mad fucked by an awful shuffle. I wouldn't be against trying it again, but not right away. |
"I'm sure Sir Kay is the traitor, that laugh is pure EVIL"
Yeah, it turns out he was just (very) French. Additional Spam: It's a pretty hard game, but I guess if we had spent the first few turns maxing out our hands and then went on collaborative quests (like we did for the Grail, we almost had it!), it would be doable. Also, if we had figured out that Merlin cards can remove siege engines and picts/saxons, we would have stood a better chance. Or, at the very least, prolonged the inevitable a bit more. Then again, we had no traitor, so that actually made it EASIER on us, if that is possible. I would definitely be up for trying this again, if only to get a chance to kick the game's ass. |
i blame my family. suddenly there were plans (which no one told me about) and we were out doing things. This is what i get for coming home for the week off of school.
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Just a note if anyone's going to read the Pandemic rules.
As a learning session; we should do two house rules. 1) We'll implement a re-roll system on rolls. This was a good compromise and learning experience at meet. 2) Also from meet; Open hands on the first round. It's a co-op game and it's best learned that way as a start. |
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I gave Pang my Delhi. It helped him cure the black epidemic.
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Yeah, with some nice Delhi and a handful of Garr's Karachi it was as simple as dropping everything in my pants and the blacks weren't a problem anymore.
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This is an FYI for everyone that Skills has officially been promoted to the rank of General Skills, as the social aptitude he showed in leading our team to victory proves that he is now able to do much more than just core programming, you know Kernel work and such.
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Oh hey
CHANGE OF PLANS. Fuck Pandemic for a week, here. Save 10% on TrackMania² Stadium on Steam Trackmania²: Stadium's release date was leaked a few hours ago (official announcement tomorrow). Release date is in April. TM² is now on steam. This is excellent, as the maniaplanet website is kind of shit. TM² through steam still requires maniaplanet launcher, which is fine. It just requires you set up an ID. ANYWAY. Stadium is in open beta for the next few weeks. Open beta is free. See link above. Don't need to prebuy to gain access. Just click download demo. WE ARE PLAYING THIS NEXT WEEK. EXECUTIVE DECISION. It's free. It's simple (Pure digital movement. Restart race. Restart checkpoint. That's all you have for controls). Servers are full of randomly designed hilarity tracks that cycle every few minutes. There will be random background music. It will be excellent. |
Done! Can't wait to virtual puke in my virtual helmet doing my best to stay on the track.
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oh man. i lost so much time to TM Nations, though i preferred the race mode to the time trial mode (more about consistency than perfection, i seemed to do a lot better at it). Really hoping i finish work early next week so i can get in on this.
EDIT: aand i have officially spent my first night playing this game far too late. For what it's worth, i created a GFF "group" (whatever that really means). To join it, all you gotta do is go to your profile, type in the info, and hit "subscribe". Spoiler:
And just when i had hopes that homework might actually ever happen again, having beaten Fire Emblem Awakening just a few hours ago. |
Welp I don't know much about this game but it looks like you can use a custom horn sound so I'm in
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I have been playing a lot this week. The two important things which i have taken screenshots of because they will never happen again are:
I am beating Skills at a racing game:
I am visible on a leaderboard of anything ever:
Looking forward to failing spectacularly in front of you all tomorrow. (also, sorry for the lousy image quality) Also, if you want to make your name fancy, here's how. |
Man, haven't played in a couple days. Wonder if I'm still #2 in DE (out of 16, granted).
The variety of music on these servers is ruining me, I'm developing a reluctant appreciation for Flo Rida :( |
enough of the music on servers is lousy that i just play my own. Only thing better than winning races? Winning races with Freebird rocking in the background.
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Team Canada enjoying listening to the lamentations of everyone else's women all NIGHT, son.
Legit talk though for a moment; I fucking love this game. I dunno what you guys thought. Someone let me know! (Other than Pang, Pang sucks :( ) |
Yeah pretty much everybody but Hawkeye was as bitter and frustrated as me by the time we called it a night. 60% of this is probably due to the mapmaking community for this game being ten varieties of rare syphilitic dog dick.
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I don't think I've been more mad and gotten as much a headache since when I played Counter-Strike way back in middle school. Game is frustrating due to how perfect you have to be to even place but mostly because the maps are either boring as fuck or made so poorly that if you fuck up in the wrong place you have to restart the entire race because the jump you want to make is impossible with the amount of track given from the last checkpoint (creepy penis overlap) you went through. Like seriously my head really fucking hurts. Really really hurts.
I'm glad you had fun, Skills, but for me that whole thing from its shit input configuration system to it's horrible race tracks to it just being a really suped up ghost-mode I'd rather not play it again. Out of all the tracks I played tonight I might have liked two of them. The one I got third in because nobody else was able to finish it and one other I can't recall much of. Where were all the neat tracks I saw in the trailer? Where were the looptyloops? Where was all the wall-riding? Shit was both frustrating and boring for the most part. I'll pass if we decide to play this and you can't guarantee that we play fun tracks. |
I'm not much of a racing enthusiast in general, so I can't be the metric by which this game is declared good or not, but not being able to dick around with Skills times by being a nuisance to him or anyone else kind of made it not so much the best game for a game night for me.
It's not a bad game, it was just a bit limited in terms of interaction is what I'm getting at. I still had a good time trying it though. |
I love racing games in the general case, though. I'm absolutely down for some Flatout or Dirt or even that goddamn ridiculous new Sonic racing business and if we do get some emulatin' on then Mario Kart is definitely on the menu. I'm sorry, but a "multiplayer" game where you can't functionally interact with the other players is walking a pretty thin line. The only way I could affect anyone's play experience was by making incredibly dumb jokes so they crack up when trying to get past map-ruining-excessively-demanding-jump-#17.
And yeah, it literally gave me a headache as well. |
It's probably the sort of thing you and I will have to do on our own time Skills, since everyone else was getting fairly frustrated by the end - though if we can put together some sweet maps on our own little server then it might be worth another half a game night to some people. Now i guess i have to get the game because apparently we're rivals or something.
Also - 4th place going the wrong way? Awesome. Totally going to try that again sometime. |
In that case, I apologize for wasting everyone's time. I didn't realize it was going to be so universally reviled.
The fan made ones do go back and forth, yes. There's some tryhards who create some serious crap (there's a lot of cases where a booster at a checkpoint could make all the difference), but I've also experienced some very good ones that aren't frustrating. Fair enough that it's no one else's bag though. Unfortunate. :( It's rare that we have a universal dud, so what are we playing next week? |
Well, failing any other ideas we can always slaughter more blacks. Other than that maybe we should just make March the month of Skill-Based Games.
March 12: Starcraft March 19: DOTA 2 March 26: Counter-Strike: GO |
I refuse to support Blizzard in any way shape or form unless it's a new Lost Vikings or Rock & Roll Racing. If you guys play Starcraft then I'm out unless there is a way I can get the game for free and go into spectator-mode and chat with you guys.
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If we do brood war I'm sure there's a way to do it. I don't know the big name servers all that well but heck, if I recall correctly there's an option for one of us to host it anyway.
Starcraft 2 on the other hand needs constant attention from battle.net so that's would be quite hard without buying it. |
Yeah, supporting Blizzard with, like, actual money was never really on the agenda, I'm not a monster.
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Let's improve all of those.
Starcraft --> Homeworld DOTA 2 --> Frozen Synapse CS GO --> UT 2K4 Or 99. Or RTCW. Or any flavour of Tribes. All better calls. (Seriously fuck you DOTA what is this. Bad taste month?) |
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SERIOUS SAM HD: FIRST ENCOUNTER HOMEWORLD SWAT 4 Looks like pretty much everybody owns Sam, but if you don't, just, christ, I'll just give it to you, how did you live up to this point. Homeworld/SWAT will require some sketchy ISO shenanigans (and SWAT might be squirrelly on modern systems, I'll look into it). MARCH: SORTED. |
It'll take me a week and a half to come up with proper Homeworld solutions to a few issues anyway.
NOTE TO SELF WHEN READING THIS POST IN THE FUTURE: - Widescreen Mod - Works fine out of the gate on Win 7 64. - GameRanger for games or maybe it'll be sortable via IP only? MUST CONFIRM - Getting game itself to people. |
Serious Sam HD should be fun, with like 16 people actively shooting everything at the same time. Or 8 people, I forgot.
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I have Serious Sam classic, but not the HD remake. Do they work together at all or is there an actual difference that keeps the two from working together? If Sam classic on steam won't work with Sam HD on steam, I'll just snag the HD remake as well cause I can never own enough Sam.
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Classic and HD do not play well together, alas.
BUY ALL THE SAMS |
I think all i've got for Sam is the GOG copies i've got lying around on a hard drive somewhere around here. That game is amazingly fun multiplayer, though.
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Next Tuesday:
GIANT CANNONBALLS OF DEATH NIGHT |
Unfortunately I won't be able to make it tomorrow. I put my name in to do supply teaching and I got a call today to be in tomorrow and Wednesday at 7:45 AM, which is rather early considering that game night starts at 10PM for me (yay for the Atlantic timezone!).
This is going to be an ongoing thing but it doesn't necessarily mean I'll be working every Wednesday. I'll let you guys know as I find out on a weekly basis. Also, I will probably drop into the stream for a while at the beginning of the evening to at least see what I will be missing (besides annoying Skills). |
Tell those students to stuff it, you've got Cannonballs to deploy.
Also, Homeworld running under Win 7 no issue. Widescreen mod demands running under Windows NT compat, though. I wrote the instructions in a text file. Acer will help me share. Anyone who wants to try to help me set up an MP game this weekend should grab it beforehand and then we can test how we're going to host the game. |
I'll want to grab beforehand anyway to make sure it'll have no problems running under WINE.
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Well, in reality it's an on call thing, so Wednesday is as likely as any other day that I will get a call, and I usually won't know too long in advance. Maybe I wasn't as clear in the way I phrased in my previous post. For instance, next Wednesday is still open.
Hence, there's not really a point in moving it unless we moved it to the weekend which would probably make it worse in terms of attendance, or if we started eariler in the evening but then it becomes pretty early for those of us who are further out west (I think Garr specifically would have to be available pretty ridiculously early?). I'm also still looking for a more stable gig, so if I happen upon that soon this might all be pointless, though I don't know what kind of schedule I'll have then either. PANG I WILL SEND MY JOKES VIA TELEFAX WHAT IS TELEFAX NUMBER |
Rarely have I fired my balls at so many invisible cows
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I like that shade was there to shoot stuff with us. It was a good thing. :shade:
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Jesus christ the process of getting Homeworld going has me drowning in misplaced nostalgia
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People still use No-CDs when they can just mount images?
I'd ask if this was 1999 but it appears that with this game; yes, yes it is. |
Welp, Skills and I did a test run to make sure shit actually works, and, after Gameranger flailing helplessly and HOW DO I BUTTS, it does! Now, you may hear some different accounts regarding the outcome of our epic space battle. Let me say only this. Gnatswam regrets nothing.
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OK, Pang and I got this shit working.
We need to use GAMERANGER, but that shit worked. It's a LAN tunneling service. You need to get it installed and whatnot. Not too difficult. Link here: GameRanger - play your friends online Additional Spam: PS pang just mad his zergin' didn't work. |
unavoidable space explosions
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I've got Homeworld 2 knocking about somewhere. If ever there was a game I didn't get my head round, that was it. I suck enough at RTS as it is, let alone in 3d...
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I won't be able to make it tonight either. I've been sick for the last week, and working on top of that (and driving 18 hours over the weekend to go see my GF in Montreal) has done quite a number on me.
It sucks that I of all people am missing RTS night, but I hope you guys will have a good time! |
The next time this is happening is like
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WITNESS THE HUNGER
THE CAPACITY FOR NOURISHMENT Next week: SWAT IV! Acer tries to breach a door with beanbag rounds while squad leader Skills slowly claws the skin from his own face. It's impossible to actually buy this shit anymore so do what you do. All next month: EMULAPRIL. Add suggestions to the list! Support for 4+ players is ideal but not absolutely necessary. N64 (Mario Kart 64) NES (Top Gun Permadeath, maybe pair off for some River City Ransoms?) SNES (That SF2 Turbo? That SF2 Turbo. Uniracers?) Arcade (That 6-player X-Men business, Sunset Riders, NBA JAM, fuckin' Gauntlet. Smash TV?) Additional Spam: Actually depending on the emulator some singleplayer games might be fine Just map everyone's controls to player 1 Struggle to wrest control of Mario from everybody else |
Man if we're going to run some bizarro shit.
HERE'S AN IDEA Warp Pipe Technologies: Creating Multiplayer Possibilities Warp Pipe. LAN tunneling for fucking GAMECUBES Double Dash all up in this. Problem though; Prerequisite: Actual gamecubes. Actual gamecube lan adaptors. BUT IT'S AN IDEA. also while talking ideas like: Battletoads and double dragon. Actually any of the battletoads Macho man Garr and myself can do BATTLEMANIACS because of extreme self loathing. |
I think asking people to buy console hardware might be outside the scope of Emulapril. Though mentioning the GC reminds me to add Eternal Darkness to the Acer Bumbles Through Deathtraps queue after Deja Vu and Uninvited.
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More importantly, the LAN Adapter would run people more than the actual gamecube hardware. Which is :(
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True story: I'm the first person to successfully play a game of Kirby Air Ride using warppipe. I tested with the creator for a while. It was super slow back in the initial days but it was still fun.
Also I like this idea of simul-Mario that Pang brought up. |
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Fuck I need to find a torrent of SWAT shit shit shit
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well there's a torrent on REDACTED that i snagged it from
if you don't use that then i guess there's my ftp REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED |
Woe to this soft generation that cannot find a game that Steam or GOG has not offered to them on a platter. Woe!
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Lesson learned: never give Acer any kind of weapon at all, ever
Gonna try to get this shit working properly over the weekend and then, if CAN BE DONE, again next week. Hopefully you can rejoin us for that, Shade. |
during install you give it a key, then after installation is done you install the expansion, then you use the cracked exe for version 1.1 that's on the expansion cd and replace the original exe with it
yay~ also at least i shot you in the face, pang and not in the back as such a coward would do |
Technically speaking I shot you in the propane canister, which then in turn shot you in the face.
The tear gas was also definitely in your face. |
Pretty sure there was at least one time you capped me out from behind that did not involve an explosion. But it's fine I definitely deserved it be it done by cowardly means or not.
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So are we emulapriling tonight or SWATing because I'm trying to get this shit in order but the weekend "let's get this shit running" crew had trouble convening due to busy Easter schedules.
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Yeah kind of forgot that normal people had a holiday going this weekend. I'm still down to try to get SWAT going, dunno if we're going to have time to figure it out. Probably a good idea for everybody to grab snes9x and a bucket of roms just in case, we'll need 'em at some point
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Stayed up to 3 AM last night doing the April Fools stream. If I don't pass out before game night I am down for whatever.
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Gonna make a simple change.
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Acer's proposal has been accepted by the executive committee.
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I literally only noticed ten minutes ago that I had Grundle in my username now.
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Well, I think we'll put SWAT on the backburner for a bit, as AFAIK Skills hasn't figure out how to make his package compatible and Acer doesn't much care for it anyways. Would be cool to get back to with with a few people sometime for serious mode campaigning but it maybe doesn't work as a pick-up-and-go game night sort of thing.
Worms has plenty of mileage left but I'm not going to keep delaying my own Emulapril idea so go ahead and get those Goodsets off the external drive as appropriate. WE GON' PLAYING WITH POWER |
Actually I just like to complain when I can. I did have fun with SWAT4 once I figured out the controls and also you guys helped me out quite a bit. The way it sends you to the next mission after failure is pretty stupid and yeah people having difficulty connecting was a bit painful. I'm not sure but I think diss was interested in joining us for a SWAT4 session so one more attempt might not be a horrid idea.
I had a lot of fun with Worms once I finally got it to work with my stream. I should be good for it should we do it again. However, it is April and emuapril was a cool idea. I await your suggestions for it. |
So what games are we starting with? 9X seems like a good call, and there's a tonne of options here.
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Yeah, I was figuring on SNES9x off the bat, it's definitely the most painless option. Turns out a lot more titles supported the multitap then I figured, but dunno how you guys feel about soccer and rasslin'.
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WHAT A WHORERIBLE NIGHT TO SWEEP THE LEG
Additional Spam: seriously acer buy that SSFIVAE I will have my revenge Additional Spam: "PVPenis" |
Seriously, I haven't laughed that hard in quite some time. Sailor Moon and Power Rangers - best games ever!
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Until the lag claimed us, that was awesome, Garr. Turbo Tunnel lols though jesus.
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Alright, if we're doing ARCADE MADNESS next week we need to organize a little better since arcade roms are often not tiny things that you can download on a whim whenever somebody gets a goofy idea, and a full set of MAME roms is, heh, somewhere in the neighborhood of 260GB. So if behooves us to plan out which things we want to play.
So: kindly grant me your ideas, and I'll gather up the necessary files and slap them up on Saxypunch over the weekend. If you're short on ideas, this link will show you every 4-player game on MAME. (XMEN goes up to six players but that's about it for >4.) You can figure out how to use the advanced search to find 2-3 player shit (OH GOD UNDERCOVER COPS), there's a lot of weird little gems out there. The latest Kaillera-infused version of MAME is a few years old but most MAME progress in the interim has been obscure bootlegs and stuff from 2001 forward, so I don't think it'll be an issue. |
It'll be great if you guys did a Shadow of Mystara run, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs run among other four player treats.
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So just a heads up, Garr and I just tested a multistream. Basically I'm hosting rtmp and have it set up to have four channels. We each can stream to a channel and then on a separate computer I can add all four channels to stream out to ustream for everyone to see at the same time. Obviously if I streamed out everyone's game audio it would be a mess so I'll be muting everyone's but one player or at the very least putting everyone's game audio very low. I can also have my skype audio go through and basically it'll be the same game night but with four streams at once in just one stream window.
However, if it's too choppy I could set up a bunch of embedded stream players that we all individually stream to. That would take up far more bandwidth though for people watching. Do you guys want to try out four people streaming sometime? Garr and I had good success with two people. I'm curious how three or four would work. I'm hoping that Skills and Diss are interested. If you want to test let me know and I can set up a channel for you to use. Garr, if you wouldn't mind showing these guys how to set up OBS that would be fantastic. Additional Spam: To give you a rough idea of what I'm talking about I took a screenshot of Garr and me streaming on the right side with the left blank and put in what perhaps Skills and Diss might be playing. http://www.thegond.com/rp/multistream-yay.gif Although obviously we'd more than likely be playing the same game for racing purposes or something. However, this was just a test. |
That is probably exactly what Skills would be playing.
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I could try streaming on this as well, assuming i actually catch game night. I showed up on time yesterday, but when nothing had materialized an hour later i left to play Monster Hunter, and game night suddenly happened without me.
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Alright I uploaded the test video for you to see what Garr and I did last night. For those that did not tune in while we tested last night this is what they saw live.
Please note this is in a 16x9 aspect ratio so you may want to actually open in it in youtube to get a better idea of what it looks like in the player.
In this test you can see me testing both of us having our audio on, just me with audio, just Garr with audio, and a mixture of one of us having higher volume than the other. Both Garr and I streamed to two separate channels on my rtmp server which then streamed to ustream for people to see. For a more thorough test I'd want to use four channels and obviously four people. That's why I intentionally left the left side blank. |
Well, gave OBS a whirl, fairly painless so far. Surprisingly it seems I can manage a reasonably decent stream, provided the game itself is fairly low-res anyway. If I do stream it's probably better if someone else hosts the Skype though.
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WELL THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR INPUT
Anyways! Just download this here bundle: http://www.saxypunch.com/grundle/mam...19-20070914.7z Unzip that into a folder wherever, should be pretty much self-contained. If I missed anything obvious let me know so I can scramble to make corrections at the last possible moment! |
I have a guaranteed day of Wednesday since its parent-teacher meeting day, so if I'm not otherwise incapacitated I should be joining in for the fun times tomorrow!
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SHIT YES LET'S DO IT.
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Well, somebody needed to take Dazzler, so this works out fine.
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wait, what did i just download?
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Well, I may be making some context-dependent assumptions here, but: probably a copy of Mame32++K 0.119 and the arcade ROMS for:
Aliens vs Predator Battle Circuit Bomberman World Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Captain America and the Avengers Crime Fighters Darius Gaiden Dungeon Magic D&D: Shadow Over Mystara D&D: Tower of Doom Final Fight Gauntlet Killer Instinct King of Fighters '98 Knuckle Heads NBA Jam Ninja Baseball Batman Rampage Rampage World Tour Rival Schools Saturday Night Slam Masters Street Fighter Alpha 3 Street Fighter III 3rd Strike Sunset Riders Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo Super Street Fighter II Turbo Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Undercover Cops Waku Waku 7 Wild West C.O.W.Boys of Moo Mesa WWF Wrestlefest X-Men and a handful of derived clones, redundant parent roms, required BIOS files, etc I hope this resolves your concerns! |
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Experiencing some weird internet connection issues; unsure if will be resolved in time for gamenight. Will try to keep you informed.
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sounds fun. i'll have to find my usb controller which should be lying around here somewhere.
Also - what time is game night? last week nobody was around and then suddenly i missed everything. |
Officially it's supposed to start at 9 PM EST but it never does. It normally starts or people start to gather anywhere from 9:20 to 9:40 PM EST. Also seriously don't just stand around in the stream chat and kick dirt. Get on AIM and look for Pang or get on IRC and yell at people in chat. Or Skype! Or Steam!
tl;dr: it starts later than 9 PM EST and look for people Additional Spam: Oh and Garr chimed in on this as well: [19:25] <Term> Also what time is game night starting? [19:28] <Garr> Term: We usually start Game Night at 9 PM EST (so 6 our time) but we really don't get things going for another half hour/45 minutes to get all the stragglers in. |
Aw man that's way too late for me. =(
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Yeah I've thought about making it (officially) start earlier several times but there's so much footdragging sometimes as it is and 8:00 for me is FUCK YOU I'M STILL AT WORK for some people, so.
Seconding Acer's point that if you want in you gotta say something, I am done herding cats and I've made too many Skype calls to people who acted interested and then never picked up on the damn call. |
I am tracking down a potential Kaillera-free route for Mametimes so everybody hang on to that shit for now, maybe we can still make it work (and, you know, might as well grab Windjammers while I'm at it). Maybe we can give it another swing next week if I can comprehend this shit, though let's not beat our heads against the wall for two hours again.
Failing that dunno what's next for Emulapril, somebody found a netplay-capable N64 emu at some point I think? Additional Spam: oh god it's not Kaillera but it is java-based dis ain't gon' be gud Addendum 2: Rychord I'm sorry shit was so poorly conveyed the one night you could make it :( Addendum 3: NINJA BASEBALL BATMAN
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Nah it was still a great time.
Gotta admit it sort of still makes me laugh how badly we wanted it to work. I think Acer would still be trying if we didn't drag him into playing The Hidden. X-MIN!!! |
I would like to play 6-player X-MEN and NINJA BASEBALL BAT MAN next game night if possible. I hope your java solution works, Pang.
And yes a couple rounds of Hidden is always welcome. Great game. |
Okay, so this thing is called MAMEHUB, and it's actually been updated this year and runs on a fairly recent revision of MAME. Which, good news in practice, but unfortunately most of those ROMs I already hunted down aren't going to work anymore.
It's a little convoluted but it seems to work okay. The lag is a lot better, at least in the couple of games I've managed to join so far. HERE IS HOW YOU DO:
If anybody else gets it going flag me down so we can see if the multiplayer works outside the few test games I've tried with random Bulgarians. (The make-a-shortcut-and-run-as-administrator thing just makes the console window instantly vanish so I just launch MAMEHub.bat directly, YMMV.) Additional Spam: PS: ROM sharing is on by default so you can usually get the ROMs for any game possessed by any other player logged into MAMEHub (which is usually like 5 other people tops, but still) |
Alright, Garr and I gave this a test just now with some AVP and it works pretty damn well. Melted down completely about 3/4 of the way through the game(possibly due to my camels pitching a fit) but it was completely playable up to that point. Little bit of slowdown lag and compensatory fast-forward, nothing unbearable. If you haven't installed this shit by now get on that, and I'll reassemble the rom pack so we have more than three things to play.
And it does the cool guy thing of letting everybody use their P1 controls, so that's nice. |
Yeah, MAMEHub apparently doesn't actually bother checking the contents of the rom zips until you try to launch, so you end up with a lot of false positives. I went ahead and checked what was still compatible and found maybe 5 or 6 that still worked, so: fuck it, new rom pack.
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Having never played Rival Schools before I was really blown away at how fun it is. Wind Jammers you are simply the master at. I got some lucky wins at that. I think we need to have a SNES and MAME session at the meet. More than likely a lot of those wins I had were that I was hosting and got a split second advantage or something. MAMEhub handles the lag really well though but I think I got really lucky. That said I love me some Akira. Damn does that motorcycle babe have some nice moves.
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Yeah, MeetMAME seems like a better and better idea and there will certainly be more than enough Xbox pads floating around to make it viable.
(Maybe I should also set up a Dreamcast emu for some Project Justice. Also, just dedicate somebody's laptop to Seaman all week.) I asked for other systems anybody wanted to (and could) do for April and didn't really get any answers, so... considering turnout this week was a little anemic, yeah, might as well give MAME one more night unless anybody's opposed. Hopefully we can actually fill out some of those 4-player deals at minimum. |
Yeah, I apologize about that. I was a little bit of a let down last Tuesday. Maybe hopefully ifnally get some CYCLOPS CYCLOPS CYCLOPS CYCLOPS CYCLOPS CYCLOPS CYCLOPS CYCLOPS CYCLOPS CYCLOPS CYCLOPS CYCLOPS CYCLOPS to work as a full crew.
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alright, i think i've got this mamehub thing up and running, and i'm borrowing my brother's arcade stick to get that authentic "i have no idea what i'm doing here" feeling. Now i just have to remember that i've changed timezones since last time.
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Man, I don't know, I sure haven't planned or prepared anything. It's been a big STOP PUTTING SHIT OFF TO THE LAST MINUTE, IDIOT week for me. There was some talk of Torchlight2/L4D2/whatever as well, don't know who's game for what. I'm fine with Pomme or Pretend You're Xyzzy or whatever if everybody just wants to wind down from WHY WON'T IT WORK month by keepin' it casual.
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i'm up for a break from Troubleshooting Tuesdays. I actually have both L4D2 and Torchlight 2 (though i've never yet gotten around to playing the latter), so i could get in on those. Hopefully by the time game night rolls around tomorrow i'll know if i have a job come fall.
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If you're gonna run Torchlight 2 on multi, you'll need to create an account at Runic.
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the horadribmanamamaocodnanic cube
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CAH is pretty fucking excellent, and is never bad. But are we sticking with browser stuff again or are we going somewhere else with this on tuesday?
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I'm doing to declare that it is Acer's Turn To Pick Something, because then it will be his fault when Tuesday rolls around and we have no plan.
In the extremely likely event that Acer does not even so much as glance at this thread in the interim, suggestions are welcome from the peanut gallery. |
Monaco?
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Works for me. ALTERNATELY: Guns of Icarus Online is gettin' a sale on. Looks like you and Acer are already on that train, and it was on Garr/Hawkeye's wishlists so I tossed it in their direction, so we've got that on the table for whenever if not for tonight.
(if anybody else wants in on this third bundle copy just say so) |
Yeah, I feel bad about Guns of Icarus. That was a game we were supposed to play with Omagnus but never got around to. Yeah, I have no idea what you guys want to do tonight. I'm down for whatever.
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Guns of Icarus is fucking awesome; would love to do that if people are down for it.
Caveat: I haven't played in like....three major patches or something? So while I'll update the shit out of that tonight I imagine. It's also worth noting you'll need an account set up on it and you might want to give a go at a few things to get used to controls. Also of note: Garr will miss tonight, unfortunately. He sent me a text. Worms is also good, still, I wouldn't mind giving that a go again too. It should be noted that Guns of Icarus is probably similar to MWO in the case that it's a very specific player-count sort of game. Four is great. More would require a multiple, and less would require dealing with randoms that are outside the chat window. Communication is key in it. It MIGHT do better on a day when we can guarantee four (or eight) and everyone in chat at the same time. Also Garr not being missing, if he's one of the group. Thoughts on this? |
Sorry I had to bail like that last night, I got trapped in an interminable boring conversation and figured it was probably better to duck out than to have you guys constantly revive me while I continued trying to play out of the corner of my eye.
FWIW I don't really think it's the game for me anyway, I am not endowed with the requisite patience. Also also: next time we have low turnout, Cry of Fear is free on Steam now and the 4p co-op is crackers |
New rule: If someone has to leave, they have to leave the way that Ben left.
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Next time I'm just going to mute my mic but never actually leave the call, while my music plugin sloooooowly cranks up the volume on "The Entertainer" to 500%
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Are we still planning on Guns of Icarus tomorrow if Garr can make it?
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So far as I know. Heard some talk about some miscellaneous folk that might want in on that business, don't know if anything's been secured on that front but at least we got the one boatful.
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Well, I was going to keep it quiet, but Skills noticed how hard I've been practicing. I think we'll really kick some ass next week thanks to the work I've been putting in.
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Just a heads up, I might not be able to air balloons with you guys on Tuesday due to having to stay late for work doing some server room stuff. Not really under my control the day things had to be scheduled for and if I'm lucky it'll go quickly and I might still make it. Still, there's a chance it'll be more complicated than it should be and I don't get to put out engine fires and have to put out fires elsewhere. In either situation I'm sure you'll make me proud, boys, and I'm sure to let you down. ::salute::
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Well, don't expect any bites on this but minus Acer and maybe minus Skills we're short one crew for our airboat. Like I mentioned before I've got a spare copy so feel free to jump on Skype if you want to join us on our exploding doom zeppelin.
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OUR MANHOGAN
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Acer reading out everything he sees is pretty bad, but Sad Heartbroken Acer is even worse. A Noble Experiment.
HWACHA!
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So, just for clarity's sake, are we doin' anything this week or is everybody going to be busy with Pack All The Things?
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I was under the impression that the impending meet would be preventing most people from making it. That said, i won't have anything up, so if people who can want to have a mini game night, we can make something happen. Not sure what we'll play, depends on what the people (if any) who want to do game night have.
But yeah, for anyone going to the meet (which is most of the usual suspects), Game Night is on hiatus. |
I definitely will be doing last minute pack work. Sorry boss.
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Working under the assumption that game night's valiant return is at hand, do we have a plan for Tuesday (beyond taking the ManHogan for a joyride)?
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Everyone seems game to sail the ManHogan for at least another week. Further into the future lies my cunning plan to get Talec to actually join games instead of just staring at us. This plan may involve teaching Acer how to play Magic. You may begin dismissing this plan as impossible... now.
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depends. If we get the magic games for PC, you can just tell him to click the cards that are shiny and he might figure out how to play one or two. Just make sure to leave blockers, because you know he's swinging every turn.
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I like our smallhogans almost as much as our regular manhogans
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All right, we doin' this. Time for some wizard poker.
GET OCTGN! OCTGN - Gaming Platform GET GAME: Installing Games - OCTGN Game Directory GET CARD IMAGES (RECOMMENDED BUT OPTIONAL): Game & Image Packs | Magic: the Gathering |
oh lawdy, that means I need to make decks.
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Okay what is wizard poker? I've tried learning Magic the Gathering a couple times and I honestly don't really get it. If it involves MtG nuances then either you guys are going to have to be really understanding more so than usual with me or I'm going to have to sit this one out. Basically, I enjoy the silly MtG cards GFF came up with and silly ones in general but I'm pretty much retarded when it comes to playing it. If wizard poker is something else entirely and MtG cards are just for visual gags only then hey game on I guess.
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Doesn't OCTGN have like a draft mode? That would make it a lot easier for things to be balanced (since i am bad at deck building, and those who haven't played even more so)
Also: wow, OCTGN has come a looong way since i last used it. |
Yeah I figured we'd just draft, ideally a really stupid draft environment like Mirage-Planeshift-Unglued.
Don't stress too much Acer, it's a fun game to teach and I'm rusty as fuck myself. Haven't really played since... when did Lorwyn come out? Shit. |
I've been messing around with OCTGN, and sadly there isn't an in-game drafting system. We could play sealed, but that's just opening a bunch of booster packs and hoping you get lucky. There's a bunch of preconstructed decks that are installed with the Magic ruleset, so using those looks t be our best bet.
I don't know how automated the game is. Some things seem to be programmed into the game, but others aren't. We'll just have to see how things go, i guess. |
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Also interested in trying out Planechase. Near as i can tell it's basically the MarioKart of MtG game modes, which sounds perfect for game night.
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So that was pretty rad once we learned to cope with OCTGN's crippling inability to cope with multiplayer. Planechase got STUPID silly once we all stopped worrying and learned to love Chaos, then Hawkeye basically won every game with Deathtouch And The Infinite Spiders. Gotta do it again sometime, hopefully with the whole crew on board. Maybe not right away though, maybe give OCTGN a chance to patch out their amazing "the cards just don't show up" feature.
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Alright you guys are about as good at generating ideas as I am at steering skyboats so how about we take L4D2 off the back burner it's been sitting on for a while. Looks like pretty much all the regulars have it, plus a few other folks. Would be cool if we could get a full 4v4 going but I'm not betting on that.
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Ooh! Yet another steam game I've had for ages that I've not actually played. I like this idea. I also have not played the first one either so I guess if folks enjoy this one we could always do that as well.
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You've never actually played L4D2?
Jesus Christ why didn't I know this. |
You are in for a nice (as in pleasant nice) surprise of how fun the L4D series is. Opting for 2 and joining if you guys have slots.
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I'm not really a fan of versus, but we can give it a try i guess. Hopefully i can make it (all of the video game related plans i've made with people in the last few days have fallen apart for assorted reasons)
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That's ok.
Term didn't even show up and he scored better than Shade did. |
I am seriously up shit creek with work tonight and possibly tomorrow; depends on if I manage to crap out 7 hours of work in a 4 hour afternoon or not.
Depends on if I can master time compression in the next 20 hours or so. ATTEMPTS WILL BE MADE, at least. Do not be surprised if late tomorrow like last week again. tl;dr fuck everything |
I'm running on 3 hours of sleep after having a pretty fun-filled day already. Might take a nap and show up, might sleep through EVERYTHING. Dunno. Just a heads up though.
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I gotta go get a wedding gift for a wedding I am going to on Friday, so I will be late, but will be there.
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Well, if more than half of us are gonna be out and/or super late (and I'm including myself oh god this heat) then we may as well call it a free week. Zombies II: Electric Boogaloo can wait 'til the 16th.
In the meantime, Steam Summer Sale is probably starting on the 11th (or so goes the scuttlebutt) so why not use the thread to point out shit on sale that's Game Night friendly? Killing Floor is only $4 right now; there's a 6-pack deal for $20 but since I already own the game it won't let me buy the 6er. |
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Count me in for July 16th.
Having a weekly time for gaming with buddies reminds me of the good ole days of WoW and running weekly raids. Probably not the most flattering analogy, but still true all the same. Man, grad school bites and I really missed gaming my face off...all the time. |
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Look at Pang, trying to be all prepared. Don't you know we don't do anything until game night, in which we scramble to get things done at the last minute?
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At least I have L4D2 installed now. So there's that.
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Steam: adus_bay
Skype: reonardo_elfinston I left my computer mouse at home in Boston when I visited my parents for the Fourth of July. Too cheap and lazy to get a new one as I go home often enough so I'll pick it up soon enough. Until then, there might be some laptop trackpad hilarity if we play FPS and mouse-dominated games. |
You won't be any worse than me. I guarantee it. :shade:
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There are two adus_bays on Steam. One only had two games (Magic 2014 Demo, and Dota 2) and the other doesn't have their profile set up.
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Obviously I am the one with MTG and Dota 2.
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Got L4D2, Chivalry, and Half Life 2. In the process of downloading The Hidden mod. I'm ready for tomorrow night!
Update: Having issues installing The Hidden. It seems like its an issue for folks since last year. Followed the instructions of this video, although still having problems. Any suggestions? I should still be able to join the game if a friend is playing though (although I can't launch the application for myself).
Yet another update: So Plarom decided to drop by NYC last minute so Sprout and I are gonna chill with him tonight. Prolly will miss out on game night or show up late. Ugh sorry dudes :( |
Hyde, as long as you can join us from the friends list it should be fine. It's a fairly old mod at this point and sort of crotchety, so it doesn't really work perfectly for any of us, but I think it's definitely worth the hassle.
To the rest of you, sorry about falling off the earth last night, seems my camels decided that once that server went down it was an excellent opportunity to just fuck off for the next 12 hours. Introducing Hyde to Dr. Hidden's Invisible Murder Party seems like a good plan for next week, unless you guys thought of a different idea while I was glowering at my ethernet cables and muttering. |
I joined in for Chivalry last night, but only for like 15 minutes. Laggy as shit. Next week I'll have to join closer to 9pm instead of midnight. I was late hanging out with GFF folks online because I was hanging out with GFF IRL. It was quite a conundrum.
I stuck around chat until 2:45 am or so afterwards and folks chatted. And I slept through my alarm this morning. Good times, good times. Totally worth it. |
Helloween will be new to Hidden as well i think, so there's two people who we get to introduce to invisible-knife-psycho shenanigans. Speaking of which, i should finally get around to installing that, since all of the pieces are finally in place.
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I also have not played Hidden.
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You shall play Hidden. It must be done.
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I noticed Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed is a game owned by Pang, Hawkeye, and Taco. It has a 4-pack on sale today for pretty cheap. I think if I got that and three game night people wanted in we could totally make a game night out of it. It has 10 player online racing. I assume it has some sort of lobby system so you can play with your friends but I have no clue... yup Taco just confirmed that it does.
So who here would like a free copy of this for a potential game night? Additional Spam: Also I'm nabbing a Worms Revolution 4-pack and giving Pang and sousuke copies leaving 1 copy untaken. Oh and Skills is the first to claim Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. I have 2 more copies left. |
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Sonic Transformed is great fun, it reminds me of Diddy Kong Racing. Which is never a bad thing. I'm pretty sure Helloween already has it too (i really need to get him to find this thread already instead of just trying to relay the information to him all the time)
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Alright well Acer has agreed to consider potentially looking into thinking about maybe theoretically setting up a private server for Hidden next week so we can avoid all the cheaters we ran into last time and try some custom maps (dunno about the rest of you but I am all set with that sewer level).
Not sure if Acer's actually going to follow through and I don't blame him at all if he doesn't but IN THE EVENT THAT HE DOES, you (and he) will need this map pack. http://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/map...r%20hidden.rar Assuming a default install, drop the bsps in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\sourcemods\hidden\maps |
You alright there Pang? Something bad happen?
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Uh other than my host getting butthurt because I didn't get their billing emails that they sent to an address I check like never everything's peaches, apologies to anybody who couldn't get the files on account of I'm Bad At Internet. Pretty proud of you guys for managing to wrangle your own cats for once.
Next week: Sonic Racing Ultimate Super Morphin' Time or whatever the fuck, and/or more Hidden if a game with Sonic in the title turns out to suck somehow. WEEK AFTER THAT: ACTION CASTLE MURDERTRAINS |
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The fact that Acer's corpse landed so nicely was awesome. The manner of its arrival (blown away by a shotgun blast and thrown 30 feet across the room) made it that much better. |
God we really need to figure out the server commands so we can dick around with the gravity and friction
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I'm just surprised the server worked as well as it did and that mapcycle.txt was just that simple that even I could figure it out. But yes some of the other silly things like allowing spectators to see the hidden's trail, gravity/friction changes, or different game modes (you dead and now you are on the hidden team - outlast the invisible murder train) would be fantastic.
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If you all need another for All-Stars Racing Transformed, I can be available. Just send me a reminder beforehand.
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Heeeey I actually made this group a while ago, but if you're not me or Skills you should probably join and get sweet notifications and announcements about Game Night stuff? THAT WAY YOU WILL KNOW THINGS without having to check the thread since apparently nobody does.
Steam Community :: Group :: Coupler Duty (I know we already have a GFF group but 75% of the members are AWOL, including the group admin, so: THIS.) PS SuperSonic what's your Steam / Skype if appropriate? Looked in the GFF group and didn't see you. |
Steam: sonictehhedgehog (duo for Profile name)
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The lesson here is that I should never host the Skype call because I forget to invite FUCKING EVERYBODY. And then you were set to Away soooooooo
Definitely going back for some of that business once I get a controller that it understands so maybe next time, real sorry guy. =/ Well anyways next week is PANG'S SUPER NERD PARTY with Action Castle and Orient Express, e'erbody feel free to hop in if you like combining things with other things and/or solving poorly conveyed murder mysteries. (The week after that: DOTA 2, unless someone else thinks of something, which they will definitely do in order to avoid playing DOTA) Additional Spam: PS Shade this is Action Castle
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Hey guys did you know that Skills is good at racing games? I did not. You know who is also good at racing? Danica Patrick. Do you know where I might be able to see more of Danica Patrick racing?
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Have you tried http://www.godaddy.com/danica/grudge/dream/bees/blowfish/ghost/gotta_go_fast.wmv
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Hey no biggie, like I said I completely forgot and I figured you guys were in the middle of a race so I didn't wanna interrupt. :) It's all good.
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I am so sad that i missed this. Hopefully it happens again sometime soon so that i can beat skills and go fast.
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Someone to challenge me would be good.
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Now that I've got my controls configured in a way that doesn't bend my hand into non-euclidean shapes I've put some time into SART and managed to actually win a few races. Just unlocked Nights and the Shinobi guy if that's any kind of useful metric. The idea of reaching the 140-star unlockable is like a distant dream.
Is USE MAGIC DRIFT POWER TO INEXPLICABLY GO FASTER BY RIDING THE BRAKE a thing in modern racing games? I thought most of us were going in more or less blind but everybody else apparently instinctively knew they needed to Drive Sideways To Win, while I futilely looked for a mythical "boost meter" that appeared to be absent from my HUD. :( |
Drifting has been a kart racer staple since like 1997. And has been the SEGA beneficial racing game mechanic thing since like 1993, and at least featured in their shit since...what. 1986?
So yeah, modern games maybe I guess? |
Yeah even mario kart does that shit except it doesn't really involve braking so much as holding the I'M SOMEHOW MAKING MY KART HOP NOW WE TURNING SHARPLY button and moving the direction opposite of how you originated your hop turn thing.
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Six stars away from unlocking Gilius.
Progress at a standstill. Rage building. WANNA DRIVE THAT DWARFMOBILE UPDATE: GOT THAT DWARF DWARF STATUS: HAS A GRYPHON HNNNNNNGH |
Ok so hey.
IN NEW ADVENTURES OF F2P GREATNESS. STAR CONFLICT. On steam. Plays like a slightly simplified Freelancer. Works well with mouse and keyboard! Lasers! Spaceships. IS ACTUALLY AWESOME. And I'm not just saying that. Omagnus can back me up. There's shooting and pew pew and oh man. We should do it some night! |
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So for anyone who doesn't have a copy of Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed for Steam, I just grabbed a 4-pack for $12 on Green Man Gaming. Is anyone wanting a copy?
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It should be noted that a patch today added some dude from Rome Total War, so you can get in your Roman airplane and throw bees at Danica Patrick in your Sonic game.
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Term, check your PM.
I gave the guy from Total War a shot in a race last night and immediately bursted out in laughter when I used his All-Star item. Freakin shields surrounded him and every time I hit the button spears popped out at all angles. Looked like something out of 300 or God of War. |
Oh dang Term, I would gladly take one. I was bummed I couldn't join the karting shenanigans last week.
My steam ID is chanic, friend me! Edit: Whoops. Not Term, Supersonic. Go Go Reading Comprehension! It worked though, Term already friended me! |
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SO ORIENT EXPRESS NEXT TIME FOR SURE YEP FOR SURE
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MY SHOGUN RACE! MY FIRST PLACE! DENIED! DENIIIIIIIEEED!! :argh:
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I was like BOOST! BOOST! and then I was like first place wah? Oh boy wow this is the happiest moment of my life! and then FISH
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So I realized we've got a little more variety in the Game Night crew then we did last time we used Roll20. So, quick primer!
If you wanna play some Orient Express with us tonight, go to https://app.roll20.net/join/34000/yQhjDQ . Don't go there until game time because until I launch the campaign the link might not do anything. WHO CAN SAY. This should take you right to the campaign page. You probably need to have a Roll20 account (I think). Takes like 30 seconds. Don't be a baby about it, it's a lot easier than fighting Maptool, and it lets me play appropriate music. Once you get in there, go to the My Settings tab (the little gear), and turn the Video and Voice broadcast/receive to Nothing, otherwise we all get trapped in The Hell Of Continuous Echoes. Okay! Good luck solving the mystery before Acer tricks you into leaving the train and leaves you stranded in Budapest! |
Thanks for the update, Pang!
Not sure if I'll be able to make this one. I have a midterm to study for. That being said, are you guys still gonna stream? If so, I'll probably tune in while I review my accounting notes. |
I think Acer would stream even if he was playing Solitaire, alone, in another room, so no worries on that account.
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I am a sad lonely existence. Sometimes there are spectators. Sometimes.
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Acer why aren't you streaming solitaire right now
I know you have a camera because you used it for Ocarina of Time 3D, don't give me excuses. |
No just stream a still image of your desktop.
If we crank the volume all the way up we can hear faint sounds of shuffling, as though from a great distance. And then Acer comes back to the microphone To read out loud Every card that he draws "SIX OF CLUBS!" |
I'm okay with this, but only if he records in a castle or dubs in some footstep sound effects. I want to hear highly reverberated shoes on stone as he approaches the mic.
The six of clubs should carry the same import as the sacking of a border fort. |
IT WAS THE SHOGUN RACE ALL OVER AGAIN! HAWKEYE, DO YOUR SNIPES KNOW NO BOUNDS?!
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Your victory is never secure until the game (or Pang) says it is, Acer. You should know this by now.
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Man oh man watching people desperately try to roll a 6 over and over and over to be rewarded with "I'm staying in berth 2" will never stop being amazing. Shame the game takes so long but you can only do so much to compel people to knuckle down and pay attention.
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I'd actually be up for another night of Wizard Poker, because sealed + planechase is hilarious.
Monaco can be great or tough, depending on whether your team all has the same mindset. Four thoughtful, careful, plotting schemers works great. Four run and gun just-run-past-the-guards-they're-fat-and-slow blitzers also works great. Two of each variety trying to play together is where we ran into some troubles. The only other thing i've got on my steam list that might be an option would be Sanctum, but i'm not sure everyone has that and i think it caps at 4 as well. |
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Garr's WHodunnit idea is pretty grand, to be honest. |
Yeah, Sanctum co-op gets pretty miserable.
Whodunit sounds a lot like Trouble In Terrorist Town, which is also a thing we should do sometime (and which probably has a bigger playerbase, to be fair). We can definitely try it, though, maybe fall back on CAH if it doesn't work out due to the map sizes or whatever. I do love some object permanence. |
I enjoyed Monaco despite playing it stupidly. I wanna say Skills had played prior to our session and destroyed a couple missions with shortcuts but I don't know if that really killed it or anything. Pang was having really bad Internet issues that night so I'm not sure he got the best experience out of it and we constantly had to go rescue him because of it. It wasn't his fault though. Anyway, if folks want to give it another go then I'm down.
I'd probably sit out DOTA2 or LOL or any kind of game like that. It falls fairly close to my desire not to play RTS games. I don't enjoy balancing spreadsheets or worrying about buffing my troops or making just the right clicks on the map for desired quickest movement or holding some teammate back because of being a newb or some other WELP GUESS I CAN'T ENJOY ANYTHING sort of thing to get into a game. I just don't see the appeal. I'm not entirely against RTS but it has to have a really interesting hook to lure me in or be combined with a cheap Steam sale to do it. I watched you guys play Wizard Poker last time and honestly I was confused by it but I liked that you all had a fun time and shit talked each other. I'd probably sit it out but feel free to play if that's what you want to do. Yeah, so besides my little comments those all seem like great suggestions. I can assure you I'd be shit at all of them but you already know that. <3 |
Garr, of that list you named, I have Star Conflict, Alpha Prime (thanks Pang!), and Dota 2. I think out of everyone here, I am probably the one who has played Dota the most. I used to play back in the Warcraft 3 days. There's a couple things I can say about it. I can also see why the game has garnered so much ire from the gaming community.
The game has a extremely high learning curve and the community is pretty terrible. That being said, if you play with people you know, its a lot more tolerable. Personally, I think the game is really fun and has a tremendous amount of depth, but games last really long and it can be tedious, too. It's free to play and I have a free invite if anyone wants. I'm pretty down for whatever although my internet has been super spotty recently. That being said, let me know what you guys decide on. I got a raise and looking to blow my money on video games. |
Have we made up our minds?
Because the newest Indie Royale features Retrovirus, a 6DF shooter kinda like the old Descents or Forsaken or something. Gives you a steam key and shit. Current asking price is 5 bucks or something (IR has a price that changes as time goes on). Not sure if people are down for such a thing. |
I am down to bump my dumb little ship into all the walls if Doom Time does not come to pass.
Edit: On some other night, on which I am not compelled to spend hours getting the runaround from Corrections functionaries and tow yard goons. Y'all are on your own recognizance. |
I bought Retrovirus. So i guess i'm voting for that.
Also LOOK AT ME, I'M POSTING IN THE THREAD... finally EDIT: Although, wouldn't you know it, it looks like we're playing Whodunit. I'll see if i can get that running in time. |
I'm all set up and ready to go, it was pretty easy actually, thanks to Garr of course.
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So my laptop with Steam and all my games officially bit the bullet. Going to have to call technical support. That and my computer crashing, it's been one really shitty week. =\
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Naw, i think you would have been fine if you were properly awake. I could practically hear the gears grinding in your head, and most of the problem was you were more or less too tired to hold a train of thought long enough to get to the end without having to go back a few steps. Also the fact that there was always that one critical white patch of wall that you just didn't see. But science was saved, and that is what is most important.
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Skills starting witch hunts was hilarious and also got me killed.
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IT'S ACER!!! KILL HIM!!!
Last night was Loads of Fun. I wish i had video captured that. |
As much as I want to see Acer, and then kill him, I will be out of commission this Tuesday. Going dark. Moving. MIGHT have computer on still, might not. UNKNOWN.
Following Tuesday, maybe setup is back up? UNKNOWN. Do not count on me being around for the next two, at least. WILL MAKE ATTEMPTS BUT |
Bad news. I sent my laptop to HP factory for repairs. Will be without a gaming-capable computer for at least a week and then my semester starts. I'll definitely still try to keep my Tuesday's free during the semester.
I'll still tune into the streaming and chat, though. What game is up for this week? |
I bought Retrovirus last week, so i've got it.
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Yeah, looks like you guys didn't have time for Retrovirus last week, so let's spitefully polish it off while Skills is MIA.
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I will try~ |
Come to think of it, i may be sitting out tomorrow night. I don't expect I'll be going late, but i might be late to the party.
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So, next week, more WhoDunIt and then maybe Hidden? Also?
Because suffice to say we tried this Retrovirus business and it was pretty damn fun for a while And then Someone Discovered MINES |
I am super down with Whodunit and Hidden.
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Sorry that i couldn't make it tonight, i had other cats to wrangle (namely the kids who decided to go play soccer in the dark using their phones as flashlights). It looks like i might be available next tuesday, though it'll kind of depend on how long it takes my partner to come back to work after running off with his wife while they have a baby.
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I am so in for Hidden or Whodunit.
L4D2 was great last night, I never knew vomiting on my friends could be so fun. |
I am down for whodunit and hidden. I'll make sure Jasper (my roommate) has them too so he can join in. He has a blast playing L4D2 last night.
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Oh man, remember when I missed every single one of my charges? Yeah... good stuff. And when I woke up that witch...
Tons of fun last night. Great turn out. Feels good to have my comp back. Who says we need Pang or Skills lol. we missed you guys :( ;___; |
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Am I reading that you played L4D2 and I wasn't informed.
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If only we had some kind of... group. On Steam. Which would tell you which games other people were playing. So you could join those people.
Maybe someday. |
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